Nevada Energy doesn’t lose money. The gaming industry loses money. It employs all the people. It pays all the taxes. And if you take the P&L, the profit and loss, of the hotels in Las Vegas and Reno, it is a number that is minus, not plus, minus.
The level of competition on ‘Iron Chef’ was very intense. In fact, I feel like the show provides chefs with a stamp of approval and in many ways lets them know that ‘they’ve arrived.’ It was a tough journey, to say the least, but in the end, it provided me with an example how hard work and persistence pays off.
I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.
I’m constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don’t train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.
I think we are in an age where cash pays for time and space. The more cash you have, the bigger space you can buy and the smaller the technology to put in it.
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
Movies remind me of recording. Just the process of it – the intricacies, the technicalities, the days and the long hours, and mastering and mixing and editing. But seeing the final product, it all pays off in the end. That’s the rush – when you see things come to life.
People will bring up all kinds of masala, but all that matters to me are my fans. They are my strength. I am overwhelmed by their support and love. It just pays off for all the hard work you put in.
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
When you get guys coming up to you in clubs or restaurants or somewhere, and they say how much they’ve enjoyed your playing on records, then that pays off dividends every day; every time they say it, you think, ‘I’m glad I did that.’
The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!
Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.
When I play discos in Belfast or freshers’ week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It’s odd, it’s funny, and it pays really well.
We are just going to keep putting the work in and just wait until it pays off.
It’s always really great when your hard work pays off.
We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. The tax code is also used to promote behavior that we as a nation support, such as home ownership or charitable contributions.
Van Gaal is a teacher, pays attention to everything you do, but Hiddink is more linked to the players. He gives more freedom than Van Gaal, but I worked with both of them pretty well.
What would surprise people about working with LeBron is he’s really into the things that he’s into. And I think people don’t understand that. They just think he’s a basketball player, he’s super busy. But he actually pays attention.
The story is important for any movie, for it is in the film industry, the consumer pays the money before he or she gets the product. So, the responsibility of delivering a good product is on us.
I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They’re the ones who matter to me.
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
I feel like sometimes, when I talk about ‘Transparent,’ I’m in a cult. And in some ways, I guess I sort of am, although it’s a cult that pays me, and I don’t pay it, so maybe that’s a really good cult.
I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I’ll do it.
Acting is a job and it pays the rent. I don’t do it for fun.
Voters should know what their representative is doing, what votes he casts, and who he pays, so my office will make this data readily available in a way which is easy to understand.
Countries need to invest in their most important asset – their own people – and it pays to start early.
