Payment

(254 votes)   Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(132 votes)   I can't afford to pay them any other way.

Andrew Carnegie
1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist

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(122 votes)   Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(106 votes)   When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy.

Ben Hecht
1894-1964, American Newspaperman, Novelist, Playwright

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(102 votes)   Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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