Top 90 Compensation Quotes

The UFC has a long history of changing a fighter’s compensation for a particular bout… There’s always changes that’s always being made as far as contracts.
Tony Ferguson
Misclassification means workers are denied not just minimum wage and overtime but other social safety net protections like workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance.
Tom Perez
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
Roald Dahl
The BP settlement is a victory for Alabama: not only for the amount of compensation we were able to secure, but also for avoiding many more years of litigation.
Luther Strange
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
Max Nordau
Economic liberalisation has seen a big and often well-deserved spurt in executive compensation, especially for professional managers.
Sucheta Dalal
It’s time to update our workplace policies to reflect the realities of the 21st-century labor force and to support modern working families. It’s time to continue our nation’s long commitment to supporting unemployed workers by extending emergency unemployment compensation.
Tom Perez
Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights – compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.
Cynthia McKinney
Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation – yes, absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets BP rather than other companies? I don’t think that – would be right.
David Cameron
I’ve never seen an obese person who has said, ‘I am well in my mind.’ Happiness stops food being a compensation.
Pierre Dukan
The national framework of social insurance – social security, unemployment and disability benefits, work programs, and workers’ compensation – protected citizens from the kinds of risks that private markets couldn’t or wouldn’t insure.
Ben Fountain
When I’m on that stage, I assume honor. I assume compensation, and I should.
Nina Simone
The expropriation of land without compensation should be among the mechanisms available to government to give effect to land reform and redistribution.
Cyril Ramaphosa
The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn’t about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a ‘public purpose.’
Michael Kinsley
A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.
Elizabeth Warren
Like it or not, at HP we are technologists, not executi

Like it or not, at HP we are technologists, not executive compensation consultants.
Mark V. Hurd
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
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don’t have to manage them.
Jack Welch
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
We are determined that expropriation without compensation should be implemented in a way that increases agricultural production, improves food security, and ensure that land is returned to those from who it was taken under colonialism and apartheid.
Cyril Ramaphosa
Though monetary compensation may never add up, teachers can rest assured that they are important.
Monica Johnson
The young generation is willing to experiment more. Firstly, they are less motivated by money and compensation, unlike the previous two generations. Secondly, integrity and governance are very important issues for them.
Kumar Mangalam Birla
Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Ambrose Bierce
There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don’t see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.
Tony Judt
There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, ‘I’m going to switch careers to do it,’ or they are often not retained… because the salaries and the compensation aren’t there to make it happen.
Melinda Gates
Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.
Charles Best
My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a job. That was a very important point – because of the injury, he couldn’t walk, and the company he was working for did not pay him. There was no compensation. So there was no money and no food.
Howard Schultz
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.
Puneet Issar
Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
Allen Tate
I was a terribly quiet, shy child. The comedy thing came when I was at university and I started doing stand-up, which I think was a belated compensation for all that time I spent hiding behind the couch.
Ardal O’Hanlon
All artists deserve compensation for their work, including musicians.
Marcia Fudge
Some media companies that rely on advertising revenue are tying journalist compensation to the traffic their story generates. It doesn’t work because it de-prioritizes writing.
Om Malik
You can look at what I did in the Senate. I did introduce legislation to rein in compensation. I looked at ways that the shareholders would have more control over what was going on in that arena. And specifically said to Wall Street, that what they were doing in the mortgage market was bringing our country down.
Hillary Clinton
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
The truth is, the WWE has changed incredibly since my wrestling days. The work schedule is not as demanding overall, and the compensation is much better.
Ted DiBiase Sr.
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
Barney Frank
No collection without compensation.
Jeff Rich
If a person is seriously injured as a result of someone else’s negligence, then they are entitled to compensation.
Robert Rinder
Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.
Todd Gitlin
All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.
Newt Gingrich
It’s important to understand the compensation equation that a CEO and a founder has with his or her employees.
Chamath Palihapitiya
One of the biggest challenges is for women to find an organization that’s willing to accept them back after they leave the work force to raise children without taking a cut in compensation and responsibility.
Diane Garnick
It is extremely hard to bring a claim for compensation against the police or the Crown Prosecution Service, even when a person has been charged with an offence and later cleared.
Robert Rinder