“To win you must pay the price. If you haven't won you haven't paid the price.” IfsWinningPayHavensPaidPay The Price Author:Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
“Every coach, every executive, every leader: They all know right from wrong. Even those Enron guys. When someone uncovers a scandal in their company, I don't think they can say, "I didn't know that was going on." They're just saying they're too dumb to do their job! And if they really are too dumb, then why are they getting paid millions of dollars to do it? They know what's going on.” IfsThinkingKnowsJobsGuyCompanyLeaderMillionsPaidDollarsCoachesDumbExecutivesScandalJust SayingEnronEnron Scandal Author:Bo Schembechler
“If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.” IfsAttentionLosingPaidFascinatingFarmersDentistAlzheimerAlzheimer's Author:Terry Pratchett
“Really, voice-over IS great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.” IfsVoicePaidCamerasWorking ItVoice Over Author:Diedrich Bader
“As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.” IfsComfortablePaidManagersUncomfortable Author:Peter Drucker
“The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.” IfsNeedsGivingStatesGovernmentPayHalfCitizensTaxesBenefitsConceptsPaidIncomeWelfareIncome TaxWelfare State Author:Dennis Prager
“The America of Obama's dreams is not the one of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to which he paid phony lip service at the beginning of his speech. It is an America in which the government, rather than the private sector, creates wealth and leads ignorant, helpless people by the nose from cradle to grave, from preschool to the academy, with the caveat that if they succeed too much, they will make themselves enemies of the state and targets for punitive action. Obama's new American dreams is an American nightmare.” PeopleIfsSelfStatesDreamGovernmentActionAmericaWealthEnemyToo MuchSucceedSpeechPaidLipsGravesIgnorantEntrepreneurshipNosesNightmareTargetAmerican DreamHelplessSelf RelianceRelianceAcademyCradlePrivate SectorPhonyLip ServicePreschool Author:David Limbaugh
“If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.” IfsWholeProblemWonderfulAdviceTaxesPaidTradeInvestingBunchBest ThingsThings To DoCash Author:Warren Buffett
“Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.” IfsAttentionParticularEvidencePaidThinkerObjectivityMaintenanceGreat Thinkers Author:Charlie Munger
“If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well isolated with a fixed salary. Judges in this whole thing have come out pretty well - there have been relatively few scandals.” IfsWantWellsHas BeensWholePayCasesJudgingBehaviorBasesPaidFixedIsolatedScandalSalaryGood Behavior Author:Charlie Munger
“If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,' I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.” IfsPersonsStatesStoriesCertainUnitedLibertyOpinionUnited StatesRightsIdentityPromiseVoteConstitutionPaidCourtFortuneSupremeRealmsReasoningBagsAphorismMysticalSupreme CourtFifthCookiesGay MarriageDissentMeltingFortune CookieSupreme Court JusticeCourt JusticeCourt Decision Author:Antonin Scalia
“By definition, if man contributes anything toward acceptance by God, he loses everything. God expects man to be the recipient, not the originator. Jesus paid it all, not 99% of it. Paul wrote, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast"” IfsMenShouldJesusLosesGraceAcceptancePaidDefinitionsSavedBoastGift From God Author:Max Anders
“To me, it's an assignment, and my job is to tell the story. To me, it's easy, and to me, it's what I'm paid to do and what I've dreamt about doing from day one. Sometimes people don't like the stories, but it is what it is. So to me, I absolutely feel like no matter, if I'm calling a game between my brothers or my parents, the facts are the facts. The story dictates itself to me, and I relay the message to the viewers as well as I possibly can. That's going to be my job whether it's the Warriors or anybody else.” PeopleIfsFeelsWellsSometimesMatterFactsStoriesJobsGamesEasyParentBrotherCallingMessagesPaidWarriorMy BrotherViewersAssignmentsIt Is What It IsRelays Author:Mark Jackson
“Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.” IfsImpossiblePaid Book:Nature and Other Essays Source: Nature and Other Essays
“If the owner of a franchise is approached and promised good money for his team to lose an irrelevant game, he tells his players to lose the game and they don't care because they get paid huge amounts anyway.” IfsCareGamesLosesPlayerTeamHugeAmountPaidDon't CareOwnersIrrelevantGood Money Author:Rashid Latif
“The lawyers have escaped most criticism [and undeservedly so]. The tax shelters [were approved by lawyers, who got paid huge commissions to do so] and every miscreant had a high-falutin' lawyer at his side. Why don't more law firms vote with their feet and not take clients who have signs on them that say, "I'm a skunk and will be hard to handle?" I've noticed that firms that avoid trouble over long periods of time have an institutional process that tunes bad clients out. Boy, if I were running a law firm, I'd want a system like that because a lot of firms have a lot of bad clients.” IfsWantLongHardRunningLawProcessSidesBoysTroubleFeetHugePeriodsTaxesCriticismVotePaidLawyerHandleFirmTunesShelterClientsApprovedLong Periods Of TimeLaw FirmsHard To Handle Author:Charlie Munger
“Every business tries to turn this year's success into next year's greater success. It's hard for me to see why Microsoft is sinful to do this. If it's a sin, then I hope all of Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiaries are sinners. Someone whose salary is paid by U.S.taxpayers is happy to dramatically weaken the one place where we're winning big?!” IfsTryingYearsHardBigsTurnsNextWinningSinGreaterPaidSinnerSalaryTaxpayersNext YearMicrosoft Author:Charlie Munger
“I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying "Shucks, I ain't no actor - I'm just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant." If they aren't actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.” IfsHardActorsHellPaidProfessionBridgesGasStationsWayneBuilderGaryGas Stations Author:Humphrey Bogart
“What's disappointing about @usopengolf is the fans not being about to walk around the course/get close enough to most of the greens to cheer. Fans are having a hard time walking the course. They can barely see anything from outside the ropes. I would be pissed if I paid a lot of money for tickets and could barely see the top players hit golf shots.” IfsHardEnoughWould BeCoursesWalksPlayerFansWalkingShotsPaidGolfHard TimesCheerLots Of MoneyTicketsRopeDisappointingHaving A Hard Time Author:Billy Horschel
“If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.” IfsActorsGivenChanceRoomsActingPracticePaidCraftsGreat ActorsStage ActorsTheatre ActingTheatre ActorsActors And ActingStage ActingActing From Actors Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“If E.F. Harriman paid me what he's paying those guys to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.” IfsGuyPaidRobbing Author:Butch Cassidy
“Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses, and for misrepresenting the cost of the venture, there is no excuse for how he chose to finance it. His was the first war in history paid for entirely on credit. As America went into battle, with deficits already soaring from his 2001 tax cut, Bush decided to plunge ahead with yet another round of tax "relief" for the wealthy.” IfsWorldFirstsWarAmericaCuttingBattleCostTaxesDecidedPaidRoundsExcuseCreditFinanceReliefWealthyVentureForgivenSoarDeficitPretensePlungeNo ExcusesTax Cuts Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“If all bank loans were paid, there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation. We are absolutely without a permanent money system.” IfsPaidDollarsPermanentCurrencyCoinsBankingLoanCirculation Author:Robert W. Hemphill
“To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.” IfsKindSongEnjoyOpinionRecordsCuttingFinePaidCriticsEntitled Author:Jason Aldean
“A European brewery has purchased Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser, for $52 billion. Which is a a shame because if they had waited until happy hour, they could have paid half that.” IfsHoursHalfPaidShameBillionsMakersHappy HourBreweriesBudweiser Author:Conan O'Brien
“I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.” IfsLittlesI CanKidsPayActingOne ThingPaidDrawingLittle KidThings I Love Author:Vinny Guadagnino
“People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldTryingSchoolTogetherReadingAttentionGoneTroublePaidHarmSundayGood WorkBotheredDoing GoodSleevesAnnoyedSunday SchoolReading The Bible Author:Jack McDevitt
“I think I look very healthy. You've already seen what I've eaten, so I couldn't be anorexic, and I wouldn't throw up if you paid me $1,000, so I'm not bulimic. Okay, for $1,000 I would stick my finger down my throat, but throwing up is the worst thing in the world.” IfsThinkingWorldLooksWorstHealthyOkayPaidSticksFingersThroatThrowingWorst ThingsAnorexicsThrowing Up Author:Courteney Cox
“If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.” PeopleIfsYearsPaid Author:Dolly Parton
“Do you think that the punishment for our sins was to die on the cross? If that was the case the two thieves could have paid the price. No, the punishment was to go to hell itself and to serve time in hell separated from God.” IfsThinkingTwoDiesSinCasesHellCrossesPaidPunishmentThievesGo To Hell Author:Frederick K. C. Price
“So many people are working in industries that don't inspire them, to pay the bills and survive. In an ideal world, everyone would get paid to work within their passion and expand in their talents. If you have a skill, a passion, and a love for creating change, the best way to support us is to co-create with us.” PeopleIfsWorldWayPassionPaySupportTalentInspireIndustrySkillsCreatingIdealsPaidBillsBest WayIdeal WorldCreating Change Author:Ian Somerhalder
“Photography is an individual passion of mine. I don't get paid to do it, although people offer me money. I do it because I love it, and if there's no money attached, I don't have to do anything. It's my weekend away, my vacation, whether it's an hour or five hours or editing photos on my laptop in the middle of the night. It gives me relief from all the other stuff.” PeopleIfsGivingNightPassionIndividualStuffHoursFiveMiddleMinesOffersPhotographyGive MePaidReliefWeekendVacationEditingNo MoneyMiddle Of The NightLaptops Author:Nikki Sixx
“Everybody, every tradesman that worked for Shafin or built my house got fully paid, well paid. Everybody got paid. I would like that to be said if I could because I haven't said it before, and it's important. People kind of think we left all these plumbers or electricians without getting paid.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsKindSaidImportantHouseLeftHavensBuiltPaidIf I CouldPlumberElectrician Author:Shane Filan
“If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?” IfsImportantNextCareersGenerationsConcernedPaidNext GenerationQualifiedProgressionHealth Services Author:Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
“I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or it's never been especially long-term.” IfsLongWantedTermPaidProfessionLong Term Author:Charlemagne Palestine
“I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they weren't in sequence; kept out of classes with people I knew from high school, because I tended to act like the class clown around them; selected teachers by their teaching style - until I could build up my study habits. I ended up graduating with a 3.97 GPA and got into Harvard for my doctorate.” PeopleIfsSchoolCoursesAttentionClassStudyTeacherTeachingStyleCollegeHabitHigh SchoolPaidLocalsGraduatesClownSequenceHarvardSelectedDoctoratesGpa Author:L. Todd Rose
“People who have been prostitutes are ten times more willing to be johns than the average person. So, if you've been paid for sex you understand the value of that experience on some level.” PeopleIfsPersonsHas BeensValuesSexLevelsWillingTenPaidAverageAverage Person Author:Annie Sprinkle
“I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.” IfsKnowsAttentionPaidSexistBrackets Author:David Brooks
“If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans.” IfsThinkingMenAgeActorsPayCollegeHe ManPaidAthleteLawyerDeanAccountants Author:Julianna Baggott
“I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.” IfsWonderPaidIf I CouldPencilsSharpeningSharpening Pencils Author:David Rees
“I was just worried that someone was gonna think that I had been commissioned by Jamba Juice to make cartoons about Jamba Juice. And the big thing for me was - if I'm not getting paid to sell out, I don't want people to think that I'm selling out.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantBigsPaidSellsSellingWorriedCartoonBig ThingsJuiceSelling Out Author:David Rees
“Horror films had died a little bit before Scream came around. That was one of the reasons I wrote it. I wanted to write something that wasn't being made right now and maybe sell if I come up with a new horror film. Because no one is watching those movies. Let's do it. That was my whole goal, and it paid off. I feel like it's never stopped.” IfsFeelsWritingLittlesMadeReasonWholeWantedFilmBitsGoalHorrorRight NowLittle BitDiedPaidSellsCome UpScreamHorror FilmPaid Off Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“Towards the end of it [working as an escort girl] I could feel myself drifting towards a liquor habit and I had a few minor mental breakdowns due to a what I felt like was a constant chipping away at my personhood (guys thinking I would have unprotected sex with them if they just paid me fifty more dollars, for instance) and a few abusive clients.” IfsThinkingFeelsEndsGuyGirlSexFeltHabitPaidConstantDollarsDuesInstanceFiftyMinorsClientsLiquorBreakdownDriftingAbusivePersonhoodChipping AwayMental Breakdown Author:Marie Calloway
“If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.” IfsWayWantEndsReasonUseChanceWalksDealsDirectorsPaidYeahVery GoodFinancialScriptsWaterfalls Author:Steven Soderbergh
“And with the Occupy Movement, it's really ironic how the police come as representatives and enforcers of the powers that be, even though the people in the Occupy Movement are really on their side - not in terms of their behavior, but in terms of their economic status, in terms of who the police are in society and how much they're paid, and if you boil it down to the economics of it, the police should be out there marching with the Occupy Movement.” PeopleIfsShouldSidesTermEconomicMovementBehaviorEconomicsPaidPoliceIronicRepresentativesOccupy MovementEconomic Status Author:Oren Moverman
“She was obviously useful at the UN because she had a public persona before she ever got there. She was well known. She was a spokeswoman for many important things. When she got there, what she said was paid attention to, undoubtedly much more than would have been if just Joe Blow had been made our representative to the United Nations. In that sense, I think it was useful to have her there.” IfsThinkingWellsHas BeensMadeSaidImportantNationsUnitedAttentionKnownPaidImportant ThingsBlowRepresentativesWell KnownUnited NationsPersona Author:William A. Rusher
“I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.” IfsSocialBornAttentionEconomicConflictLowsPaidCarefulAffluenceHighs And LowsDialectics Author:Elena Ferrante
“Jesus was probably a guy who thought, "This thing that I've discovered can save the world and everybody is miserable without it." So he was probably a very kind and giving person and thought he had to give it to people, even if it killed him. He had to make sure they got the message, and he paid the ultimate price as they say due to his insistence.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingKindPersonsGuyJesusMessagesUltimatePaidDuesMiserableSave The WorldInsistence Author:Brad Warner
“I honestly think if I had made a ton of money as an actor, I wouldn't have done anything else. (Hah!) Then I turned to writing plays. If that paid me well, I don't know if I would have turned to TV. Or coaching. I've now devised a combination of things partly because I'm having fun, and partly because I'm piecing together a way to make a living.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWritingWellsMadeDonePlayTogetherActorsFunTvsPaidHonestlyCombinationHaving FunCoaching Author:Steven C. Harper