Sue Grafton Quotes

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.

Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

Japan has a philosophy that the harder we work, the better life will be .... Other countries don't put the same value on work.

It must pay to work!

There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.

Now all of you know that right now the federal minimum wage is a starvation wage.

It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.

If you're getting $80 a show, then you're not getting paid.

The pay in the minor leagues, I think it's terrible, it's disgusting, it's exploitative.

People in the South are very organised and are thorough professionals besides being good paymasters. They are very disciplined and start and wrap up work on time.

Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.

The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

That's the problem with the socialist model, because the socialist model - if you work twice as hard as I do, and you get just the same amount, pretty soon you decide that it's foolish for you to do more than I.

Give no man sympathy because he has to work - it is his blessing that he can.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

Agencies which frequently work nights and weekends are more stimulating, more successful - and more profitable.