No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian Tracy

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
Hunter S. Thompson

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Tiger Woods

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
Oprah Winfrey

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
Albert Ellis

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
James A. Baldwin

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
Rudyard Kipling

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
Albert Schweitzer

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Rabindranath Tagore

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.
Mike Tyson

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
Aldous Huxley

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
Vera Wang

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.
Layne Staley

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
Frank Sinatra

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank Zappa

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.
Jerry Seinfeld

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
Casey Stengel