Estelle Morris Quotes

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.

We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That's what families care about.

You've got to ask for more money.

Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

If you give people peanuts, you get monkeys. So if you want good people that are highly qualified, make the amount of money available for them to go out and do the job.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

I can see my work as a job. I do it for money. I likely already look forward to the weekend on Thursdays. And I probably will need a hobby as a leveling mechanism. In a career, I'm definitely more engaged. But at the same time, there will be periods when I think, 'Is all that really hard work really worth my while?'

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.

At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.

When determining appropriate levels of compensation, management must determine if the employee turnover rate is too low, too high, or just right. If turnover rate is high enough to adversely impact the entity's performance, then employee compensation is probably too low.

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.

Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term.

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.

I try not to and I don't think I ever have just jumped at any opportunity because a company wanted me. Just because there was money on the table doesn't mean that I took it.

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.