Deferred Payment Quotes

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.

Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a writer. It included both the $3,000 in deferred option money as well as half the fee for performing the initial rewrite. The amount was scale according to the Writer's Guild guidelines, but a lot, according to me.

I feel that if you want to make films, you have to be willing to make it without a fee. You get a deferment, I guess.

Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.

One simple step firms can take is make sure that people that are getting paid a lot of money, say more than a million or two, that a big chunk of that money is deferred. That's going to change the whole ballgame.

We forget that we all are the people; that while each of us in his group can shove off on the rest the bill of today, the debt is only postponed; the rest are passing it back to us. We have to pay in the end, every one of us.