79 Payoff Quotes

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Famous Payoff Quotes

The real payoffs you never understand. You should just give good people money and tell them to do good things. — James Gosling

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

Sooner or later, everybody pays the Piper! — Roddy Piper

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance. — Brian Tracy

Winners see the gain; losers see the pain. — Shiv Khera

It is the end result that counts. — Alexey Brodovitch

You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize. — Sam Nunn

Smart work pays best. Trust it. — Conor McGregor

Pay first and then get what you have paid for. — Vietnamese Proverbs

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. — Bobby Flay

Take the money and run. — Woody Allen

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance. — John C. Maxwell

You either pay the price now or pay the price later, but regardless of your decision, the price must be paid in full. — Patrick Bet-David

Fulfillment, at the end of the day, is the only thing that matters. — Tom Bilyeu

At the end of the day, it's all about money. — Garry Kasparov

Short Payoff Quotes

  • Cleaners don’t care about instant gratification. The invest in the long-term payoff. — Tim Grover
  • The idea is to make it as easy as possible in the moment to do things that payoff in the long run. — James Clear
  • Killing is the payoff of war. — Morley Safer
  • The results are the payoff. And all this sweating and hard work will be worth it. — Chalene Johnson
  • The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine. — Kathie Lee Gifford
  • People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • It is the love that we give and the service we render that really is the great payoff. — David B. Haight
  • We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff. — Warren Buffett
  • The only real payoff for leadership is eternal. — Patrick Lencioni
  • My dogs are a priority and a big responsibility... but the payoffs are well worth it. — Will Estes

Are Payoff Quotes

If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, 'cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater. — Axl Rose

Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever I want and the unmediated connection with readers are the payoff. — Kate Christensen

Forgive me, for those of you who play the lottery - but economists, at least among themselves, refer to the lottery as a stupidity tax, because the odds of getting any payoff by investing your money in a lottery ticket are approximately equivalent to flushing the money directly down the toilet. — Dan Gilbert

I tend to have a long con when it comes to romance, in part because I like the build-up as much as the payoff, and in part because I think there are a wealth of relationships out there (friend, sibling, rival, etc.), and straight-up romance interests me less than tension. — V. E. Schwab

The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with the potential for some great change or I don't mind if an author torments his protagonist, but I do expect a decent payoff in the end. — Michael Boatman

There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, you say that’s real, that’s truth, that’s life, that’s the way things are. ‘There it is.’ — Robert Stone

The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting. — Kevin Kelly

When we can see an immediate payoff, we are more likely to change our behavior in the moment. This aligns our daily actions with our long-term interests. — Tom Rath

What payoff are you getting for remaining stuck at this point in your expansion? — Julia Cameron

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More Payoff Quotes

I've learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we'll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it. — Dwayne Johnson

If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff. — Alfie Kohn

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses. — Charles de Lint

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. — Laura Schlessinger

Why do you think the lottery is so popular? Do you think anybody would play if the super payoff was a job on the night shift in a meat-packing plant? People play it so if they win they can be rich and idle. Like I told you years ago - if work is so good, how come they have to pay us to do it? — Mike Royko

Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement. — James Cook

The message I got from my father was that life is hard, but you just don't quit. I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness. You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge. — Mariska Hargitay

Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible! — Brian Tracy

For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school. — Stephen King

There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. — William A. Dembski

Sorry, boyfriends everywhere—you’re doomed to sit through an hour and forty-seven minutes of syrupy drivel. The payoff? Between my face, Tadd’s abs and Quinton’s biceps, your girl will be ready for takeoff as soon as the credits roll. You’re welcome. — Tammara Webber

Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night. — Denis Waitley

Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods. — Tom Robbins

Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff. — Denis Waitley

But we go out as a band because we enjoy each others company, first of all. And its the payoff for me, to go out and play my art and still play guitar, which is my life. — Peter Frampton

With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life. — Doc Childre

If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned. — Jon Rappoport

What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel — Francine Prose

When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff. — Hilary Duff

I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke. — Keith Murray

Leaving what feels secure behind and following the beckoning of our hearts doesn't always end as we expect or hope. We may even fail. But here's the payoff: it can also be amazing and wonderful and immensely satisfying. — Steve Goodier

Creativity isn't far away, or outside of you. It's an inner movement, a heart-shift, a joy making its way out of your throat or hands or feet. So go for it. No one's watching. The payoff is magnificent. — Margo Jefferson

The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities. — Howard Raiffa

Spirit is the key to everything we desire. It is our weather-proofing, our Teflon, our line of credit that assures if we just keep putting one foot in front of the other, one day; there will be a miraculous payoff. — Iyanla Vanzant

The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this. — Gerry Beckley

A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves. — Daniel H. Pink

Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff. — Denis Waitley

It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen — Thurston Moore

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff. — E. F. Schumacher

If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich. — Eric Ries

For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn't go back. — Alan Alda

You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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