Top 334 Compensation Quotes & Sayings

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

The great irony of executive compensation is, if you pay your employees more, you're gonna create more demand for your goods and services! Which is gonna lead to more executive compensation than if you pay your employees less and try to take all the cream off of the top.

Like it or not, at HP we are technologists, not executive compensation consultants.

I don't like what's going on with the executive compensation.

The life of a woman is worth half of that of a man [in Iran]. If a terrorist attacks me and my brother on the street and we are both injured the same, the compensation he receives is twice as much as the compensation that I would receive.

Obviously, college stars deserve substantial compensation, right?

Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

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

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

When determining appropriate levels of compensation, management must determine if the employee turnover rate is too low, too high, or just right. If turnover rate is high enough to adversely impact the entity's performance, then employee compensation is probably too low.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

There is no evil without its compensation.

We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

As you grow, it feels hopelessly corporate but it really is worth putting in place these compensation bands.

Today, a large part of Peru's revenues come from mining. Many big mining companies only pay income tax, but they extract minerals, they pollute the water. They don't give any form of compensation to the regions where those minerals are extracted and where they do the damage, forcing the state to help those regions. What my party Gana Peru is stating is that the mining companies will have to pay that compensation. That is called a royalty.

It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.

Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars.

Have you ever thought about why, all over the world, in every culture, in every society, there are a few days in the year for celebration? These few days for celebration are just a compensation - because these societies have taken away all celebration in your life, and if nothing is given to you in compensation, your life can become a danger to the culture. Every culture has to give some compensation to you so that you don't feel completely lost in misery, in sadness. But these compensations are false.

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously its a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.

The inequality between CEO compensation and the compensation received by workers and stockholders has grown to such an extent that it endangers our economy and and our society.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

No collection without compensation.

No evil is without its compensation.

In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place.

Now I have the pawn and the compensation.

What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.

Your compensation is directly proportional to how many lives you touch.

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more.

Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation.

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

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

If a person is seriously injured as a result of someone else's negligence, then they are entitled to compensation.

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.

Unlike the victims of 9/11, who received plenty of relief aid compensation from the government and charitable institutions, those who suffered hate crimes were given very little. As tax-paying citizens of the country, they too deserved similar compensation.

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.

All artists deserve compensation for their work, including musicians.

Letting the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund close is not an option.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

There is compensation in all things.

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.

It's important to understand the compensation equation that a CEO and a founder has with his or her employees.

When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.

Kyoto costs a lot, does nothing to prevent calamity, and pays no compensation in the event of loss. If my insurance broker offered that sort of policy, I would not carry insurance. Instead what my broker offers is a policy that costs a little and pays full compensation in the event of loss. If someone wants to propose that as a policy on global warming, I'm all in favour.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.

We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.