It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde
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There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Henry Ford
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Tom Peters
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
Tom Peters
We saw remarkable increases for the races following Indy, too. But it wasn't just Danica. We've been aggressively marketing our series for some time, and it's paying off.
John Griffin
However, only a parent can take the exclusion. A grandparent could only claim the exclusion if the grandparent can also claim the child as a dependent and is going to be the one paying for college.
Stephen Meyerhardt
Even though you're paying more money, I think you'll sleep a lot better knowing you won't have to pick up the garbage the next morning.
Terry Feinberg
It amazes me that four people in a car, who spent $40 each for a concert ticket, or $500 for someone like Cher, will yell about paying $10 to park.
Jerry Watson
I did not expect that we would emerge on top. I would have been content for us to finish in the middle of the pack. But all the hard work, patience and perseverance of my players are paying off.
Nel Parado
I don't understand what harm would be done by going forward with this. From what I have heard, a private company is paying for it, so residents would just get more information if it continued. I just don't see the harm in doing that.
Mike Carroll
When people are spending their own money, they will tend to use less care than if somebody else is paying for it. But the size of that effect is going to be much less than what the advocates claim.
Victor Fuchs
We can't deprive the paying members of their golf, even for an ex-president. But it would have been a buzz for the ladies. There's no Monica Lewinsky here -- we're better.
Wendy Alley
This one has been the worst I've been through, ... We're paying some overtime. As far as staffing our trucks, we aren't staffed like we were.
Chris Eubanks
Everybody has to pick their game up. I felt it was on myself to come out and take some shots. It's been paying off, and we've seen it paying off in games.
Folarin Campbell
So, we're going to raise that issue ? what the impact of paying workers cash has on the State of Minnesota.
Alan Kearney
I think the Legislature made a mistake by not paying attention, and I think when we make mistakes we ought to clean them up.
Sen. Mary Lundby
That's a small price to pay for 600 well-paying jobs and an opportunity to diversify our economy. And we're filling an empty office building, so it's a win-win on every side.
Wendy Mitchell
I was pretty upset. Right now, I'm paying $3 a gallon pretty much.
Ryan Baker
You've always gotta be paying attention. I just want to make sure the game is the focus.
Kevin Hallinan
That woman is just as concerned about paying for college, but she has an economic imperative more pressing than the male student, ... That's really important.
Jacqueline King
We pushed that blocking sled all over the field, ... We didn't like it, but it's paying off right now.
Kyle Brown
RIM is still trying to get businesses to buy into the value of paying extra money for an additional server.
John Starkweather
Build the best and highest quality network of Little Italy Districts across this state that will draw millions of paying visitors.
Fred Miller
Brazil is paying greater attention to the Arabs in terms of import.
Antonio Sarkis Jr
The working people of this county already are paying more than their fair share.
Stephen Urban
This is just a one-year agreement. It's the first step on the road to doing what we need to do, which is paying our employees a fair and competitive wage.
Jeff Friedman
I just took a whack at it. It comes down to basic plays, simple plays. We were paying attention to the details.
Martin Lapointe
Any for-profit entity of (Google's) magnitude using land owned by the people should not escape paying their fair share.
Larry Stone
We were paying the price but the puck wasn't going in for us. (Auld) played well.
Scott Hartnell
All we're doing is pushing the due date up. (Taxpayers) are not paying for four months extra. It's more of an accounting question than a monetary figure.
Rick Boyer
The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
Julia Cameron
I'm very concerned that we are going to be paying two individuals.
Donald Thompson
Piracy has taken a hit, but it's always going to be a problem. It's human nature to find ways around paying.
Jimmy Schaeffler
The sleeping giant is awake -- wide awake -- and we're paying close attention.
Jaime Contreras
I have to say it's not because we've run the numbers and find out that all of our members are going to pay less taxes. Many of our members would wind up paying more taxes, but we're here to express our support because we believe that by far this is the best answer we've seen to an obviously complex issue.
Bill Webb
We're also having difficulty with people paying their utility bills.
Greg Mitchell
If they're paying money to have you on their team, [teams] should want to ask and should want to know, and are obligated to know. It hurt me because it kind of damaged my character and put me in a light I don't want to be put in. They know I'm a good player.
A.j. Nicholson
I'd start and he'd close. If people weren't paying attention, it looked like the same guy.
Sean Marshall
Hurricane Katrina affected all prices. They ( pass this price increase along to universities and homes, the consumer. In just electricity cost alone, we are paying $3,120,000.
Pat Teeters
And these are good paying jobs. I know construction managers who make more than $100,000 per year.
Jim Cronley
We're already the most taxed industry in the state. We don't mind paying our fair share, but we don't want to pay more than that.
Morris Burns
It's not very easy paying 55 grand a year for liability and try to keep our office open.
Dr. Juris Macs
We have counted on customers realizing they need big processors to anchor their Web serving e-commerce applications, and that anticipation appears to be paying off.
M. Thompson
That's a good thing. That means people are working and need help paying someone to watch their kids.
Mark Knold
Is just seriously out of control, and this administration has not been paying attention to those problems.
Bruce Bartlett
By not paying or by paying only the minimum balance, you can hurt your credit rating. Students can come out of school with not only educational but also consumer debt.
Noreen Lephardt
I'm sure there are higher-paying jobs, but it's not about the pay, it's about helping the people. Helping people when they're going through this becomes more important than anything.
Dan Barrett
The costs we incur for paying for natural gas we have to pass on to the customer. We do everything we can to keep prices down because of our customers. One of the things we suggest to our customers is average billing. This is where your bill can be averaged out over 12 months. It is a big help and a good thing to do for our customers.
Mike Richard
We've already agreed (with the county) that we'll end it (our contract) at the end of this year. We both agreed on it. They're not paying me to move out, and I'm not going to stay and take care of my contract. We both agreed that this is the best thing for both parties.
Pat Thompson
And when community gardens go up in a neighborhood, it's amazing how the people start paying attention to other issues.
Margaret Mora
This is about more than evolution. It's about not teaching sex education, not teaching bilingual education and pushing for vouchers. Its about not paying taxes.
Frank Smith
I want to be part of the community. I look at the people paying the taxes for our schools. And I want to be one of them.
Constance Collins
Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
Ralph W. Sockman
People just aren't paying attention. They're driving too fast and not paying attention.
John Dilling
Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.
Anton Lavey
We're paying for it, but no one can see it.
Paul Ginsburg
I don't think we're paying too much at all, considering what I have here.
Carolyn Wickert
The paying of money to the family is a civil affair, it's none of our business.
Nguyen Duc Trinh
If he finishes first, we'd get him the X-Box 360. Some people say we shouldn't do that, but if he goes pro they're paying him to ride anyway. What's the difference?
Wayne Weakley
We've been paying a lot more this year, not quite double.
John Brock
The health system in general has largely ignored paying for weight-loss interventions up to this point. This is going to help them reconsider that.
Morgan Downey
Nobody is paying attention to any fundamental news. The funds are still piling in.
Angus Macmillan
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Franklin P. Jones
We're all becoming more accustomed to cameras. They are at every mall, in every city, everywhere. In the future people won't be paying attention to cameras, and they'll be used more and more overtly.
Richard Soloway
People hate paying taxes, and the 10 percent penalty has been a huge incentive for many to not disturb the balances in their tax-deferred accounts.
Michael Busch
This government resolution infringes upon our rights. People bought cars, paid high customs duties, are paying taxes, and in an hour they have become outlawed.
Vyacheslav Lysakov
We're paying per unit today for land costs what we paid 10 years ago per acre. Land costs have gone up tremendously.
Joseph Narkiewicz
Auto jobs are good-paying jobs, and there are a lot of them. I don't know anyone who would want to get rid of an auto plant. But when you look at the world economy, the fiercest competition is in autos, and this region is very, very dependent on autos for its manufacturing base.
John Slenker
(The customer charge and base amount) are fixed costs that we are required to collect money on for reading the meter, maintaining our system, paying our employees.
Alicia Dixon
In the next four or five years, voice will eventually become free. People will be paying for data, and the carriers will throw in voice for free.
Abhi Chaki
You don't know cause you have always been paying the same bill.
Dave Mccullough
The attraction of higher-skilled jobs and better-paying jobs have played a significant role in growing our economy.
Matt Kisber
On average, we're paying them back about $685,000 a year.
Robert Chavez
I've got a problem with paying somebody when we're not going to do it like we're supposed to.
Mike Robertson
The closer we get to the end of the window the more clubs raise the price of the players and try to force us into paying more than we should.
Alain Perrin
We were in the game. We were doing what we needed to do, we were paying attention to the scouting report.
Theresa Grentz
It's very bold that Gates is coming out and saying that. It's definitely something that people need to be paying attention to.
Marcus Courtney
Those are wonderful, but they cost lots of money. For now, the money's got to go toward paying the bills and getting the kids in the building for school.
Rich Gaffney
He really stayed after hours and asked me to come out and throw with him and he really took the initiative. And it's paying off.
Marques Hagans
I'm picking up the check. Definitely. She's not paying for anything.
Brandon Hadwin
It's what I'm supposed to do, right? ... You hit in the middle of the lineup, you're supposed to hit home runs. That's what they're paying me to do. That's what I'm supposed to do.
Jonny Gomes
At practice we worked on throwing strikes. I guess it's paying off. He's our go-to-guy now.
Kelly Robinson
They talk about how they bring jobs to the area — they bring low-paying jobs to the area. I'm not going to be able to close my store and go work for them.
Dave Summers
Part of living a healthy life is paying attention to friends and family.
John Cacioppo
We've been able to put together a very strong group of educators in this district, and an awful lot of hard work is paying off for us.
Bob Donaldson
I think it would be a whole lot less costly than the $600 million we're paying in benefits to people who are here illegally.
Marc Holtzman
In essence, Dean is paying all that money to someone who is keeping him away from his children.
Dawn Nelson
The question is what are we paying per capita for fire protection and what are we getting. We're going to look long and hard at that.
Kevin O'shea
If they are paying out all of their earnings as dividends and reinvesting none of them, that's worrisome. For most companies, that's not going to be sustainable.
Haywood Kelly
He was actually paying them. He was the paymaster. He had firsthand knowledge. He would run down to New Jersey, get a check, cash the check and pay.
Miguel Fuentes
It was exciting to win my first title. It's great to see all the hard work paying off.
Sherie Owens
She's very upset, and she's angry. She wanted to know why the staff was not paying attention.
Thomas Kelley
I'm paying attention. They are very, very good. They look like they're head and shoulders above the rest.
Jim Mandich
What I was paying them was basically chump change with what I would get back.
Michael Galardi
This is an enormous burden to impose on our taxpayers, who would be responsible for paying the refund, and the benefit will go to National Grid.
Howard Weitzman
None of us are comfortable paying $2.50 per gallon when we go to fill up our cars with gas.
Allan Hubbard
The immediate monetary impact is one thing, but now people are saying we will be paying for this for months and years to come.
Colin Boyes
He's been working hard, and it's paying off for him.
Karl Hochtl
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
W. Eugene Smith
In this context, it is outrageous that the Ontario government is preparing to increase college tuition fees next September. Why should Ontario families keep paying higher and higher fees for less and less quality?
Jesse Greener
A lot of what acting is paying attention.
Nancy Reagan
We just didn't play until the end of the fourth quarter, until the whistle blew, ... and we're paying for it right now.
Tommie Harris
It's important to know why you're paying a lot of money for this little tee-tiny thing that's going to be on your finger for the rest of your life.
Vicki Hauser
I feel comfortable with it, pretty much. I just look at it like all my hard work is paying off. I just hope I can capitalize on the opportunity I'm going to receive this year.
Donnie Johnson
What you're doing is, you're paying $22.8 million for the privilege of putting up $100 million. At that point, you'd ask why would you need the middleman?
Carol Licko
It's designed so that both sides can say they're paying - and being paid - the price they wanted.
Stephen O'sullivan
If we can capture the attention of 18- to 22-year-olds and focus it on the classroom and student life, then this is a technology that's really worth paying attention to.
Anne Bishop
It was always thus, ... Clubs and regions are paying for the players, they're the employer and it's always difficult when you have two employers.
Gareth Davies
We have the books being cooked, that's bad enough, but what we have then is senior managers engaging in paying hush money to cover up their misdeeds.
Rodney Hide
We can't expect them to do it for free forever. It's no different than us paying a retired Army general to talk about the war, or to retain ... a retired FBI agent to talk about the latest crime trends.
Chris Hansen
We try to treat every one of our employers as well as we can because it's important for our students to have access to good paying jobs.
Bob Tomlinson
We are all in this problem together. One way to think about it is: How much are you and I paying to cover the uninsured?
Karen Minyard
The reality is they're not paying out enough anyway. There are all these companies that are sitting on top of cash hoards. The next big battle for corporate governance is for companies to start paying dividends again.
James Montier
WorldCom has a solid base of bill-paying customers, strong fundamentals, a solid balance sheet, manageable leverage and nearly $10 billion in available liquidity, ... Bankruptcy or a credit default is not a concern.
Bernie Ebbers
To look into this contract and see if there is a legitimacy to my concerns that we may be paying twice the price for this product.
Bennie Thompson
We're going to pay it one way or another. We think paying based on what the actual costs are over a 5 percent difference is a good way to do this. It's not that we're unconcerned; it's just the price of doing business.
Bill Smith
What the minister has signaled is increased capacity and paying royalty from incremental production.
Ali Moshiri
More than anything we are paying attention now. Our intelligence gathering is better focused and funded.
Mike Rogers
He's a clever little player that causes a lot of problems. We wanted to make sure that anybody who wasn't guarding him was paying him some attention as far as helping.
Perry Watson
Shocked, I don't know how this man could do something like this when we were paying him faithfully.
Richard Grimes
It balances the overall impact, ... Quite frankly, you've got to satisfy the people who are paying the bill.
John Donahue
The best defense is a good offense. Consumers can take charge of their own situations by paying attention to the details sometimes overlooked by unsuspecting individuals.
Alex Johnson
They end up paying more of their health care and they end up with lousier pensions - if they keep one at all.
Mark Gaffney
If you aren't just a little bit depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world.
Pete Wentz
This isn't a lark. My goal is to play out here, that's what I want to do. It's sort of like when I broke into the major leagues. I'm just keeping my mouth shut and paying attention.
Rick Rhoden
Not paying the comics a dime -- that's Penn's greatest magic trick.
Gilbert Gottfried
If they are getting the services for free, we want to offer them the opportunity to become a paying customer.
Paula Smith
Nobody (in the city's real estate department) was paying attention.
Jim Waring
Besides the obvious loss to a homeowner and his or her family, the values of homes near foreclosed properties drop dramatically when a home is boarded up. A typical city may lose up to $33,000 per foreclosed home, and a typical mortgage company may lose $50,000 or more per home. One way or another, all consumers suffer and end up paying more.
Walt Fricke
I would think that this would be especially attractive for fuel, considering the high prices we are currently paying.
Gary Banowetz
They are paying to stay at the Coachman, so they have some source of income.
Rev. Ted Pierce
I like animation. Animation is just great fun. I don't mind getting paid but sometimes I feel like I should be paying them.
John Ewing
Even though individuals may have a job, they still are having a hard time making ends meet. We find many people have to make choices between food and other basic necessities like paying for utilities and heat.
Maura Daly
We were paying attention to the weather all day, hoping it didn't rain.
Will Johnson
It's a very good settlement, but I don't see the corporation paying for it.
John Schwartz
If we started paying $150,000 a year, there would be a lot of men interested in teaching.
Bryan Nelson
One of the nice aspects of borrowing from a 401(k), if one has to borrow, is that the interest you pay is being paid to your own account. You're essentially paying yourself rather than paying somebody else the interest.
Madeline Noveck
We know that some people are having a hard time paying their utility bills, and we hope this helps some.
Dwight Luton
There will always be those who will avoid paying and then we have to go back to the courts.
Roger Munns
Any time a high-tech company goes for paying a dividend, they are telling you that they are maturing, that their industry is maturing. When you are a growth company you invest the cash in growing the business.
Apjit Walia
Everyone wants to solve the problem. Certainly the employer community is right there -- the employer community is paying the bill of having the highest healthcare costs in the country. But let's not make a mistake that will endanger local employers.
Jon B. Hurst
Our citizens are paying the price for our dependence on foreign sources for too many years and we need to stop that.
Ralph Hall
We will probably end up paying $8- to $10-million of that. We feel like from a financial perspective, we're fine right now.
Beth Leytham
If you take a large chunk of GE's EPS dedicated to financial services and put a 10 multiple on that, then you're paying a tremendous amount for the rest of the business.
Robert Gowen
So far, we haven't had any trouble getting it, but we're paying 10 percent to 15 percent more for plywood.
Chris Sheridan
These people make some pretty high dollars, and they're usually 50 to 55 years old. It's not easy to get a new job paying that kind of money.
David Livingston
By the time I get done paying all my bills at the end of the month, I'm lucky if I have $10 left. If it wasn't for St. Vincent's, I don't know what we'd do.
Carol Riley
We hired three new employees to help monitor these machines. First thing we'll have to do is lay off those employees...which I'm sure they'll file unemployment. And, I imagine we'll end up paying for the unemployment charges.
Larry Welp
There are companies that are paying for vulnerabilities, and with the commercial acquisition of vulnerability information, nobody knows how long [the attackers] are holding that information.
Dean Turner
We've had tremendous improvement of health outcomes over the past decade. People don't think we're making much progress. But people need to know we are and our investments we're making are paying off.
Margie Hale
A lot of local residents are just happy to see something done. But it's sad that we (taxpayers) are paying for it.
Kurt Wieringa
We think this is kind of a back door way to raise general revenues. It's sort of like paying for dinner and then having someone else eat it.
Bill Ratliff
A lot of the big-cap stocks aren't very exciting right now. There are small-cap opportunities in the dividend-paying world. You just have to do your homework.
Jill Evans
You don?t know if you?re paying for the right person.
Julian Brewer
There are a ton of students off campus paying that price, and every dollar is important to them.
Jere Chapman
The school board right now is not paying anybody for busing, and their mandate is to supply a daily bus service for our children.
Kathy Redmond
I like to call it paying yourself first. It means putting yourself as a priority.
Barbara Steinmetz
Just because someone looks safe, doesn't always mean they are. Always be aware of your surroundings, pay attention to who is walking up behind you, or who seems to be paying more attention to you than they should.
Barry Tate
I went crazy when he paid off the house so quickly - as a CFP, I thought of the deductions he'd lose by paying off the mortgage. He broke one of the first rules of financial planning.
Carrie Cole
We're paying for that through our own donor base, through volunteers and grants.
Jerry Ryan
It's an individual decision based on the fact that you will be paying for what electric you use.
Merrie Street
I was born here, and so were my parents and children. I will work beside anyone and they will be my equal, but I draw the line when told I must pay and continue paying for something that happened over 200 years ago. Like most Australians, I worked for my land; no one gave it to me.
Pauline Hanson
Even with raising fees, we don't come close to paying for our ferry service.
Craig Whipple
Another cause which aggravates taxes is the force of paying them in money at a certain tinge, and not in commodities at the most convenient seasons.
William Petty
She works hard on cone drills and it's paying off.
Sally Starr
Taxpayers are paying for the schools, and the kids should have access.
Robert Houser
Now, they're paying everybody they should.
James Ferguson
I will approach each issue from the standpoint of the average tax-paying citizen.
Michael Brewer
She's concerned about taxpayers having to pay for health insurance for big employers, which should be paying for their employees.
Holly Armstrong
It?s a balancing act in our society. We?re always go, go, go, and it?s important to have balance in your world, right down to paying attention to your breathing.
Kathy Gallant
I've been asking them to visualize and go through the game mentally and anticipate so that you're not just sitting and hoping. If the ball bounces and you didn't think it was going to bounce to you you're probably not going to get it. Hopefully it's paying off for him and I'm hoping some of the other guys are going to start doing that too.
Reggie Witherspoon
If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.
Neal Boortz
You can't work in Kazakhstan without paying bribes. It's that kind of Wild West. Everyone was doing it.
Robert Baer
But there are more asteroids out there, so we should be paying attention.
Clark Chapman
The next time the bills come, I'm really going to have to think a lot about even paying it. I'm just so tempted to just rough it and go without.
David Stout
Students will keep paying that fee to continue making South Dakota competitive. We need more of a boost.
Janelle Tolman
The dog can't talk, the dog can't provide a defense. My dog is paying the ultimate price.
John Woodhull
These are people who are going to be paying taxes and contributing to our economic vitality.
Nick Velasquez
It speaks of opportunity. We can have good-paying jobs if we prepare the Hoosiers (for them).
Ron Stiver
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
In the past, many have balked at paying a premium for an environmentally conscious blend of petroleum and renewable, biodegradable fuel.
Michael Devine
People are paying attention to what Fukui will say. It's hard to find a reason to buy bonds as yields are rising.
Naomi Hasegawa
For us, cost of insurance includes paying for medical losses if you have accident.
Robin Harbage
You don't want this service to get in the way of your regular, paying gas customers.
Chuck Olsen
It's because of our tax structure, mostly. Motorists in New York State are paying some of the highest taxes in the country on fuels.
Wally Smith
We're paying very close attention to what's happening with AT&T because getting distribution in the broadband area is very important.
Linda Bannister
More tech companies ought to be paying dividends.
John Snyder
After all the work, now we'll see how it's paying off.
Brian O'donnell
This was a much bigger story for the Latino media. If the mainstream media had been paying better attention, there would not have been the surprise about the turnout.
Felix Gutierrez
If you're paying $40, it could be $60 to $70 or higher.
Jimmy Schaeffler
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