If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.
Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.
Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.
I get speaker's fees from time to time, but not very much.
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.
There's no art where there's no fee.
Tara Reid is charging $3,500 for a personal appearance fee. So, for only $3,500 you can either buy a 1998 Jetta with 130,000 miles on it... or Tara Reid, who only has 98,000 miles on her.
Fee fi foe fum, she's scratching on my back. Oh, here she comes.
As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client.
In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.