1. pay off - Noun
2. pay off - Verb
eliminate by paying off (debts)
pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor
do or give something to somebody in return
take vengeance on or get even
pay off (loans or promissory notes)
yield a profit or result
Source: WordNetpay-off
Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do. Jonas Salk
Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off. Warren Zevon
When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off. Vanna White
In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years. Jeffrey D. Sachs
If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage. Suze Orman
While frenetic activity, in the end suiting journos; running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off. Paul Keating