Payment Structure Quotes

Doctors no longer charge patients, patients no longer pay doctors, and neither determines what is medically necessary.

Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.

Everybody doesn't want to hurt to lower guys from getting paid, but it comes down to, it's a performance-based business. You get good, you win, then you get paid.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.

I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.

When I first signed a contract with a women's team, my contract stated that if I played, I would get 100 pounds, and if I didn't play, it would be zero.

People have realized that films like Phantom have different remuneration structures.

The first book advance I got was paid out in thirds. And over time, as I've had different deals, the advances get chopped up into ever-smaller parcels.

I think we're paid a going rate for how well our shows do.

The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.

Every time someone downloads a picture, the photographers get paid about 30% of what we charge.

I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or engineer is ethically indefensible. The band write the songs. The band play the music. It's the band's fans who buy the records. The band is responsible for whether it's a great record or a horrible record. Royalties belong to the band. I would like to be paid like a plumber. I do the job and you pay me what it's worth.

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

I remember a meeting I had at MGM. It was at the end of their reign. They say we have you under contract, and because you’re under contract, we’d like to you to work. I said, well, that seems fair. But if it’s a really good movie, they were going to give it to a particular actor that was not under contract. The bottom line was they were going to pay you more if it was a bad one and pay you less if it was a good one.

The reality is that unless you understand the regulatory environment and payment structure, you can't revolutionize it. I think most tech companies and startups have come to this realization: that you have to partner with people in the ecosystem.

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps.

I get paid by the fight, not by the minute.

A lot of our contracts state that it is a 90-day credit period, but why? You work in any company, you get paid in a monthly basis. Why does an actor have to wait for 90-days?

In WCW, your future was determined by the time you signed the contract. I was the lowest-paid guy in the company at $75,000.

You have to realize WWE's contract. They're not getting paid from advertising money. USA makes that money. WWE gets paid by USA, they get paid a lot of money, and the money increases every year. Ratings aren't the most important thing to them.

You get paid on what you did, not what you're gonna do. That's what people don't understand. You get paid on what you did.

There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.