“I just like working. I'm not good with downtime. I need to be doing something. I'm a music person, so I'll always have that going ... whether or not I'm getting paid for it . It was different to go into talk shows and performances by myself.” NeedsPersonsDifferentShowsPerformancesPaidTalk ShowsDowntime Author:Megan Hilty
“This is a turf battle. They are saying, 'The songwriters aren't getting paid.' Baloney. Songwriters are getting paid. They're paid sync rights and (mechanical) rights. They aren't getting paid for the public performance in a download because there is no public performance in a download.” RightsBattlePerformancesPaidSongwritersDownloadsSyncTurfBaloney Author:Jonathan Potter
“Everyone has some natural talent or aptitude in one or more areas. If you can identify those areas you not only will be happier and perform more successfully in that role, but you will also become better paid for that. Our free-market system pays for performance at some point. When you have a natural talent or aptitude, coupled with desire and experience, the result is productivity plus.” IfsDesireNaturalResultsPayRolesTalentAreasPerformancesPaidProductivityPlusFree MarketAptitudeNatural Talent Book:Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families Source: Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families
“Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more than what is regarded in a particular society as the reasonable level of subsistence. The lower ranks of labor will commonly have less, and if public relief were afforded even up to the wage-level of the lowest ranks of labor, that relief would compete in the labor market; check or dry up the supply of wage-labor. It would tend to render the performance of work by the wage-earner redundant.” IfsWellsLittlesPoliticsLevelsPayEconomyParticularAdvantageLaborPerformancesPaidChecksDryLiberalismReasonableReliefLowestSubsistenceRedundantDry Up Author:Hilaire Belloc
“I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.” IfsThinkingShouldWellsLongSaidHardHard WorkLong TimePerformancesPaid Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.” RememberPerformancesPaidActiveManagersAlphasBeta Author:Paul McCulley
“What you have to remember, when you get to the level of seeing 10,000 people a night, is that they've all paid to have a performance. I need to make sure that they get their money's worth. I don't want to be going on stage and saying, "I'm just going to try some stuff and if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter," because it does matter.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsTryingDoeMatterRememberNightStuffLevelsSeeingStagePerformancesPaidWorking ItRemember When Author:John Bishop
“I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder’s performance piece. The script was great. ‘When I bleat here, do you want me to just bleat or to really let go and “bleat, bleat”?’ I asked. ‘I feel like “bleat, bleating,” but if Mother/Destroyer is going to be crawling through the birth canal of concertina wire, I don’t want to steal focus, you know what I mean?” IfsKnowsWantFeelsMeanMotherFocusPiecesBirthLetting GoPerformancesPaidRewardsScriptsStealingFollyWant MeInvitedWireNestsBuilderYou Want MeDestroyersCrawlingCanalsDo You Want Me Author:David Sedaris