Certainly, he was not a man with whom it would pay to take chances.
But there are times when it pays to take a risk.
They almost paid us to take the thing off their hands.
They just pay a service provider to take care of all that.
That program paid farmers to take land out of production.
Many companies pay people to take a survey, but some are for free.
It wouldn't pay to take very many of his people with him.
Why would anyone pay someone else to take his money?
"How much are you paying him to take it away?"
He then paid Roger to take the baby and leave town.