Compensation Quotes

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.

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

[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

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

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

Karma is a medicine which is given for our own good. Karma is the law of compensation, not of vengeance.

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

There is no evil without its compensation.

Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.

But I say to Apple with all due respect, we don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.

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

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.

Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

If you give your best to someone it will most definitely come back to you, often from a different person altogether.

To work for salary is to give out your life for little compensation.

Stop living for compensation but begin to cultivate your own ground.

To use your life to work means giving out your time to work to get compensated for it.

Time wasted can never be compensated

Time spent effectively can be compensated

While you keep ageing, your experience compensates for your lost brain power.

You can never deceive or manipulate the future. Whatever it is you contribute towards it, is exactly what it will compensate you for.

If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed a pay-off, I’m only assuming a sacrifice.

Allaah has not bestowed any blessing upon His slaves then taken it away and replaced it with patience, but what He has compensated them with is better than what He has taken away.

Don’t think for a moment that you’ve gotta be perfect to be paid.

Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages.

Did you have a sad day? Don’t worry, you have all the night to compensate for it! Did you have a sad night? Don’t worry, you have all the day to compensate for it!

Even if the heavy cloud fails to bring heavy rainfall, it cools the atmosphere

If the poor man cannot always get meat the rich man cannot always digest it.

Tis always morning somewhere in the world.

The prickly thorn often bears soft roses.