Compensation Quotes

• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Freedom, Thinking, People

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• If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Disappointment, Self Esteem

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.10, Yale University Press

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• If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Top Management

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• Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

  Cary Grant

  Inspirational, Jobs, Order

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• My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sacrifice, Law, Rewards

  Nikola Tesla (2007). “My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

  William Barclay

  Inspirational, Life, Taken

  William Barclay (2003). “Day by Day with William Barclay: Selected Readings for Daily Reflection”, Hendrickson Publishers

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• A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Doe

  Frances Parkinson Keyes (1968). “Dinner at Antoine's”

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• The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Success, Romantic Love, Achievement

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely.

  Kin Hubbard

  Appearance, Being Pretty, Penalties

  "Abe Martin's Primer: The Collected Writings of Abe Martin and his Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors". Book by Kin Hubbard, 1914.

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• Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

  Allen Tate

  Psychological, Theory, Deals

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• Cap the well, yes, clear up the mess, yes, make compensation, yes absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets BP rather than other companies? I don't think that would be right.

  David Cameron

  Thinking, Would Be, Target

  "David Cameron tells Barack Obama he will release Lockerbie files" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2010.

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• Tis always morning somewhere.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “The Later Poems”, p.108

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• Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.

  Joaquin Miller

  Father, Rain, Sunshine

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• If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

  Max Nordau

  Respect, Doe, Would Be

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• I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Personality, Salary, Dimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Gratitude, Evil, Lessons

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• Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

  Bob Beauprez

  Excess, Research, Benefits

  "3 ways to reform labor and save our country". www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2012.

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• My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a job. That was a very important point - because of the injury, he couldn't walk, and the company he was working for did not pay him. There was no compensation. So there was no money and no food.

  Howard Schultz

  Jobs, Father, Blue

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• Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

  David Hume

  Pieces, Advantage, Existence

  David Hume (1870). “Essays, Literary, Moral, and Political”, p.552

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• O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Pain, Heart, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.49

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• We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

  John Stossel

  Government, Lawyer, Kind

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• A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Government, Principles

  "Special Interest" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. March 15, 2010.

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• Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Pain, Light, Long

  John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

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• If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Men, Opulence, Poverty

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• When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Fate, Men, Great Gifts

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1968). “The Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne: Prose works”

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