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• You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

  Napoleon Hill

  Ambition, Character, Literature

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.

  Paris Hilton

  Travel, Party, Facts

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• We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.

  Judy Holliday

  Clubs, Prestige, Owners

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• A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Smile, Men

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• Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

  Aldous Huxley

  Culture, World, Pay

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.134, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Song, Hard Work, Writing

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• Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

  William Ralph Inge

  Life, Happiness, Wisdom

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• I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.

  Joan Jett

  Long, Attention, Stuff

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• The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.

  Penn Jillette

  Believe, Corporations, Firsts

  "Voodoo and Violence". Interview with Steve Kurtz, reason.com. April 1994.

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• I think there's just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I think women know it, which is: You know more than men, you know more than most people you're dealing with every day, and you know that's it up to you to make things move forward, and you get paid half as much, but you just do it.

  Rashida Jones

  Moving, Men, Thinking

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• The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid.

  Meir Kahane

  Country, Facts, Creation

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• Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place.

  Kid Rock

  Baseball, Teacher, Smart

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• I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

  Will Rogers

  War, Stopping, Lasts

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

  Jim Rohn

  Funny, Motivational, Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 09, 2017

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• We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Greatness, Values

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 24, 2016

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• In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.

  Christina Romer

  Jobs, War, Skills

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• I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.

  Eli Roth

  Baby, Thinking, Actors

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• Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Gratitude, Philosophical, Inspirational Christmas

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• The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

  Karl Rove

  Country, Team, Growth

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• Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Servant, Wells

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

  Richard Russo

  Thinking, People, Cost

  "Richard Russo on Painting a Canvas With His Novels". HBO Interview, www.hbo.com.

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• I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Want, Teach, I Want A Woman

  "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: 'I want women to be paid more'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2013.

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• We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that's why most Americans are saying, 'Look, let's just be honest. Let's have lower rates, but everybody pays them.'

  Rick Santorum

  Looks, Shelter, Pay

  Interview with John Berman, abcnews.go.com. November 8, 2011.

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• We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

  George Saunders

  Character, Order, Rivers

  "George Saunders’s Wild Ride" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sleep, Insomnia, Redemption

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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