Paid Quotes - Page 26

• In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

  Harold Geneen

  Life, Motivational, Graduation

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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• Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

  Patricia Ireland

  Equality, Littles, Food Stamps

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• The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.

  Linda Grant

  Daughter, Mother, War

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• I worked for a menial's hire,
  Only to learn, dismayed,
  That any wage I had asked of Life,
  Life would have paid.

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Inspirational, Life, Think And Grow Rich

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1918). “The Door of Dreams”

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• You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Life, Teacher, Children

  "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.

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• If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

  Mark Twain

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Mark Twain (1966). “Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques”, p.185, Univ of California Press

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• We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.

  Samuel Gompers

  Party, Intelligent, Opportunity

  Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1906). “The American Federationist”

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• I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell.

  Erma Bombeck

  Travel, Night

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• Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Work, Pay, Pleasure

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• We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Come Up, Breakthrough

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• Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want to feel as though I`m being taken advantage of... The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn`t go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure... I`m an eccentric actor, and there`s a lot of us around.

  Ian Mckellen

  Taken, Adventure, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

  Franklin A. Thomas

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

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• No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 14, 2013

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• I've always had a really developed sense of justice. As a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses for fear that they might come alive at midnight and one of them would always have the best dress on. Whatever it was that made me worry about my dolls I suppose has paid off in my career because, really, an actor is all about empathy and imagination. And those are the cornerstones of activism.

  Susan Sarandon

  Children, Careers, Justice

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• Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Easter, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, Easter Season

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.253

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• A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.

  B. C. Forbes

  Acceptance, Pay The Price, Self

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• Frankly if I had paid more than are legally due I don't think I'd be qualified to become president.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, President, Election

  Interview with David Muir, abcnews.go.com. July 29, 2012.

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• Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

  George Meredith

  Stars, Fire, Dying

  George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.549, Broadview Press

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• Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the CEO of Wal-Mart earns nine hundred times the wages of his average employee. Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder's family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40% of the US population: 120 million people.

  Tony Judt

  Home, Average, People

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.16, Penguin

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• I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion.

  Joyce Rupp

  Compassion, Offering, Needs

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• Before all, and above all, attention shall be paid to the care of the sick, so that they shall be served as if they were Christ Himself.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Healing, Sick, Attention

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• I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivational, Mom, Children

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• To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens low-paid, low-skill U.S. workers. The combination of domestic reforms and NAFTA-related growth in Mexico will keep more Mexicans at home. It is likely that a reduction in immigration will increase the real wages of low-skilled urban and rural workers in the United States.

  William J. Clinton

  Real, Home, Skills

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• There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls.

  Dan Simmons

  Dream, Soul, Humanity

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.115, Spectra

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• Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.

  Sherry Anderson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Appreciation

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