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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.

Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.

Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

I never do anything for money; I get paid a lot of money as a by-product.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.

The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.

I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.