Jon Evans

To succeed in the tech industry, you start businesses, make money, and make smart investments. But to succeed in the tech community, you do and build awesome things, are generous with your time and efforts, and make a point of making space for strangers - without any expectation of payback.

Canadian Novelist

Andrea Jung

When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

American Businesswoman

Scott Weiss

Be generous with your time and money - it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love - and this frequently means tuning out work completely. And drive slow in parking lots.

American Businessman

Luke Hemsworth

As a parent, you go through a whole lot of really tough things, and you kind of want other parents to experience those tough things as payback - especially when it's your brother.

Australian Actor

Joe Walsh

I like to give people equipment and stuff. For me, it's a kind of payback. Anyone who is an influence or hero for me, I'm always concerned with how I can balance the karma.

American Musician

Steve Jobs

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback.

Gil Penchina

There are lot of ways people get non-economic payback - learning, networking, and relationships. These drive most angels more than the money.

James Blunt

Touring is the best invention of all time, so if I have to suffer a little bit of payback for having all this fun, then so be it.

English Musician

Wendy Davis

I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.

American Politician

Rick Danko

My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.

Canadian Musician

The term implies that the person who borrowed money is expected to return it.

Expectation of return

Sometimes, 'payback' refers to returning a favor, not just money.

Not always money

There's often a sense of personal duty associated with 'payback'.

Moral obligation

Using 'payback' in this sense implies negative consequences for actions.

Consequences matter

Here, 'payback' involves emotional closure or satisfaction in response to wrongdoing.

Emotional satisfaction

'Payback' for bad actions can sometimes be unexpectedly positive, teaching a lesson.

Can be positive

In business, 'payback' is about how efficiently an investment pays for itself over time.

Business efficiency

Shorter 'payback' periods can make an investment more appealing.

Investment appeal

 you could use it anywhere on Earth. It just affects the payback period if you're comparing to grid-supplied electricity. But if you don't have grid-supplied electricity, then the question of payback is a different one entirely. It's just how many watts do you get per dollar, and how could you benefit from that to change your life in some way.

Bill Gross: Great ideas...

 local knowledge about how to get the most out of that region's wind she calculated the upfront cost and the payback over time and it's a net plus on so many levels for the local national and global economy it's a longer payback than mountaintop removal but the wind energy actually pays back forever the

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 She calculated the up-front cost and the payback over time, and it's a net-plus on so many levels for the local, national and global economy. It's a longer payback than mountaintop removal, but the wind energy actually pays back forever. Now mountaintop removal pays very little money to the locals,

Majora Carter: 3 stories...

 real good tonight after I get home knowing that I did a little favor for those guys and it's kind of like payback they did a lot of favors for me too honey I had kind of a hard winter health-wise we both had surgery in December and if we did not have the support of the community that we're in

It Takes a Village PIPE...

 The audience is too small. You'd think, there's plenty of paralyzed people in the world, but the audience is too small, and the amount of research, the time it takes, the FDA clearances, the payback time is too long for V.C. to be interested. So he saw a need and he stepped in.

Simon Lewis: Don't take...

 capital cost, which helped pay for the other improvements and reduce the payback to just three years. Integrative design can also increase energy savings in industry. Dow's billion-dollar efficiency investment has already returned nine billion dollars.

Amory Lovins: A 40-year...

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 a third and then renovating smaller chillers instead of adding bigger ones saved seventeen million dollars of capital cost which helped pay for the other improvements and reduce the payback to just three years integrative

A 40-year plan for...

 of wedlock I've been to prison and already I've been to prison and more than once gave serious thought I'm talking deep contemplation to whether I could or should murder someone is payback now I

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 payback these two are honeybees they made their hive in a hollow tree they too are caring for their young but these are native Japanese honeybees and they're