“The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.” TodayReadingSimpleHalfSituationFiguresIndustryInternetCostMachinesPaidNewspapersFundArticlesCentsBankingPaymentTransfersDwarfsDwarves Author:Erik Naggum
“I worked for [Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee] Tommy Hunter. It was a wonderful training program at the CBC, because they made sure they never paid you very much, so you had to do a lot of things, and that way you made some money. [A phone rings.] That's my agent right now telling me I've got a 13 cent residual from Tommy Hunter in 1969.” WayMadeCountryWonderfulRight NowFameTrainingProgramPaidPhonesRingsAgentsHallsCentsHuntersHall Of FameResidualTraining ProgramsMusic HallCbc Author:Alan Thicke
“Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.” IfsTwoJobsWaitingChanceLossTalkingTelevisionListeningSingingLonelyPaidPhonesRadioDeterminedStationsCentsSaddestTwo CentsTelevision And Radio Author:Barbara Holland
“At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.” WorldGivingWellsHeartEnoughLastsSpiritFeltEducationPovertyBloodYouthCollegeBrokenWallArmsHighestPaidHungerDisappointmentFedsSweatCentsCrushedCleanlinessLaundryFeesGive And TakeTuitionWell DressedFrigidUnderpaid Author:Anzia Yezierska
“As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.” MenHomeJobsYoungLostHoursPaidHungryFortunateYoung ManFactoriesCentsGreat DepressionCanning Author:James E. Faust
“Science is better paid than at any time in the past. The results of this pay have been to attract into science many of those for whom the pay is the first consideration, and who scorn to sacrifice immediate profit for the freedom of development of their own concept. Moreover, this inner development, important and indispensable as it may be to the world of science in the future, generally does not have the tendency to put a single cent into the pockets of their employers.” WorldFirstsMayDoeHas BeensImportantPastResultsPaySacrificeDevelopmentConceptsPaidProfitTendenciesConsiderationPocketsCentsIndispensableScornEmployers Author:Norbert Wiener
“It bothers me when people, say, you know, write for, you know, a web publication and get paid little or nothing or, you know, expecting to, like, read the best newspapers in the world and not pay a cent for it. Those newspapers need money in order to operate.” PeopleKnowsWorldNeedsWritingLittlesOrderPayPaidNewspapersBotherExpectingCentsPublicationNeed Money Author:Terry Gross
“Look at Hispanic women - they are being paid 42 cents on the dollar - or African-American women. I think it's an issue we have to look at across the board.” ThinkingLooksIssuesPaidDollarsAfrican AmericanBoardsCentsHispanicAmerican WomanAfrican American Women Author:Jessica Chastain
“I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.” FirstsPaidCamerasDollarsSevenFiftyCentsSeattle Author:Gordon Parks
“Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.” YearsTwoCountryTruthTaxesHighestPaidRateIncomeBritainEmployeeTwo YearsPlusCentsEmployersIncome TaxDeveloped Country Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber
“I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.” WritingI CanCitiesWrittenPaidSevenCentsMetropolis Author:Mark Twain