Top 101 Bonus Quotes

When traders were able to earn a million dollars, of which base pay was $150,000 to $200,000 and the rest was bonus, they would go for it. Now if you’re sitting there earning $600,000, you become less risk-seeking. And if you have less risk-seeking, the ability of the market to be incredibly volatile is increased.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

I’ve managed many people in my career. I’ve managed very diverse teams. And it’s interesting because what I’ve found over time is that when it would come to bonus time or raise time, I would hear from the gentlemen, ‘I want to make X.’ I don’t think I ever heard from a woman who worked for me, ‘I want to make X.’

To play in the Champions League is an experience a player of 33 may not have had in his whole career. To be doing that at 18… well, it’s such a bonus.

If I win, it’s a bonus. If I lose, the sun still comes up the next day, and it’s all good.

It’s a bonus if your girlfriend likes your music – definitely not a downfall.

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

I hope Britney doesn’t get bummed out that Lindsey is a better singer. It is not Lindsey saying it, it’s me. Lindsey would never say that. She’s an actress first. It’s just a bonus that she can dance and sing.

Getting on stage is a bonus, that’s my therapy, that’s when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

I don’t think anything I’ve written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. ‘World’s Fair’ was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

A bonus container is food, especially for each individual – supposed to be one every month, but in fine Pandya fashion, I have been ‘saving’ them. They are food that we requested or indicated that we particularly liked.

Quite honestly, I’m so happy to be Jonathan’s wife and my children’s mum that anything else is a bonus.

For me, life is nothing without love… and family is the most important thing for me. Everything else is a bonus.

Google likely never cared if Google+ ‘won’ as a competitor to Facebook (though if it did, that would have been a nice bonus). All that mattered, in the end, was whether Plus became the connective tissue between all of Google’s formerly scattered services. And in a few short years, it’s fair to say it has.

I always said I just wanted to be an artist that made like $500 a week from music and anything on top would be a bonus, so everything that’s happened to me now is unreal. Like, I really can’t believe it. It’s like when you watch a Netflix show and the main character becomes a superhero; I feel like I became a superhero.

Why not add benefits for making healthy food choices, provide a transition bonus for getting off food stamps, or increase job training opportunities and income – raising minimum wage?

My godchildren went to see Taylor Swift in concert and got to meet her. They literally ran toward her and hugged her, and it was amazing. I got big bonus points for it. I’ll remind them when they’re teenagers.

I don’t know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

When I was making the ‘Kid’ my salary was $75 a week. Chaplin gave me a $5,000 bonus at the end of the picture.

I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month. Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.

Extracting the meat from a whole crab is a time-consuming job – picking all the meat out of the legs, claws and body, double-checking for bits of shells, etc. But the flavour makes it worth it, and you get the additional bonus of the crab shells to make a flavourful bisque or stock as a base for other dishes.

I’m just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have ‘Paranormal Activity’ be released and become successful. And everything that’s happened since then is just an enormous bonus.

My own kids are absolutely allowed to help me cook it. They of course have the added bonus of knowing how to bake. That wasn’t really a concept when I was a kid – I learned it at school in home economics, then started properly when I was home with my children. They love helping me.

I just want to be the best defensive player I can be and anything I can give us offensively is a bonus.

No, I didn’t quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time.

We reach a secondary road and – here comes the bonus – we pass the Temple of Neptune and Cerene, at Paestum, both looking beautiful in the sunlight. Strung from the Doric columns are lines of soldiers’ washing. At last they had been put to practical use. If only the ancient Greeks had known.

I don’t care about that All-Star bonus, to be honest. It’s just about my legacy.

I don’t think about winning a bonus, I think about putting on a good fight and, if God blesses me, I will win the bonus.

My synesthesia is mostly gone – it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you’re trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist – flat is all I see.

Health comes first before any bonus on offer.

The memory of Audrey is in my innermost mind. And I don’t need a foundation to commemorate her. That’s perhaps a bonus, if you like.

This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.

I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn’t unhappy when I was single, either.

People are looking a lot at statistics and all these things, but in the end, I don’t really care. If we can win more games than last year where I score less, I will be really happy. And maybe if we can win a few titles, that’s the bonus.

Being considered a fashion star is wonderful. It’s definitely a bonus thing.

It’s the little added bonus of realism that makes the difference between an adequately done stunt and a really convincing one.

Since I had cancer I’ve realised that every day is a bonus.

Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives me the added bonus of a targeted audience: readers, who enjoy targeted ‘prizes’ for participation in fundraisers – books and other neat promo items.

I’m just fortunate to get to sing songs composed by such great musicians. It’s a bonus that the songs have been received well.

Dating as a single parent is tricky. My kids are usually seen less as a ‘bonus’ and more as a ‘situation.’

I have more energy to run after our four children. Weight loss and great skin were a bonus!

Working is a bonus; working on something you love is a bonus, and getting to do it for a long time is the ultimate.

Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I’ve been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.

The best Chipotle restaurant managers get the title ‘restaurateur’ and a $10,000 bonus for each person they hire who starts as crew and goes on to become a manager.

My first signing bonus was 3,500 bucks. I bought speakers and a five-disc carousel CD changer. Dude, I thought I was the wealthiest quarterback around.

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren’t laughing, it’s not comedy. It’s as simple as that.

Every game I played was a bonus.

I would rather be hired solely for my talent, not just to fill a quota. I also don’t want to shoot just any studio movie just to say I’m shooting studio movies – for me, quality of the material comes first, and if eventually that leads to a really great studio project, then that’s a bonus.

I’m interested to branch out to Tamil because I know the language. If Bollywood happens, it will be a bonus, but I’m not working towards a career in it.

What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.

After 40, every day is a bonus. We should know how to live our lives to the fullest.

Some of the most fun I’ve ever had has been filming ‘Bert the Conqueror.’ As a stand-up comedian, I love putting this humorous spin on travel, and I get the added bonus of using all these wild adventures in my act.

At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a million a year in salary and bonus; after 10 years, you could expect a million or more. I had 60 grand of university debt, and my parents had no retirement. I needed that money.