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Quotes about Compensation

Make it your business to render more service and better service than that for which you are paid, and lo! before you realize what has happened, you will find that the world is willingly paying you for MORE THAN YOU DO!
— Napoleon Hill
Failure to honour God in the material realm cannot be compensated for by religiosity in the spiritual realm.
— Christopher Wright
Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of.
— Herman Melville
there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
— Herman Melville
The effect of reparations would be among the most devastating the country and the black community have ever experienced.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Love itself compensates for any diminishment.
— Marianne Williamson
There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
— Herman Melville
And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
— Herman Melville
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
— Earl Nightingale
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
— Soren Kierkegaard
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.
— Bill Gates
If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take. When you lead without compensation, when you sacrifice without guarantees, when you take risks because you believe, then you are demonstrating your faith in the tribe and its mission. Of course it's difficult. But leaders will tell you that it's worth it.
— Seth Godin