Job Rewards Quotes

I imagine there are some people who would work even if they received no remuneration at all. They would work for the pure joy in the work itself. But I also recognize the fact that there is a great deal of work which must of necessity be done because of the financial return it brings, even though the task is rather dull. It is this latter type of work that creates our difficulty. How to find an incentive that will make all people, regardless of the work which they do, work as hard as they can—because the world community profits by their work—is one of the problems of education which we are certainly far from solving.

I think the idea of a 'perfect job' is a myth - there are pros and cons of every position, good days and bad days, and even what most people would consider dream jobs come with their share of downsides.

I like the work that I get to do.

If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!

I feel privileged to be able to do what I enjoy doing and that I also get paid to do it. That gives me great pleasure.

At the risk of being glib, I would say if you really want to make America great again, you have to make work cool again.

I think I've got the best job around.

I go to work, and think 'wow, they pay me for this', and I go home.

I've been very fortunate throughout my career to fight for the best organizations in the world.

I just love working.

I think I have one of the best jobs.

My job is so wonderful.

It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it's not easy to maintain that attitude.

It often occurs to me that this is a strange way to make a living. But it's wonderful, too. There are many ways to read maturity, and I'm not fighting the instinct to simply enjoy that kind of nonsense. I love that someone would pay me to draw on somebody else's bottom.

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.

We need to find ways to transform the more than 60 million service jobs, which make up 45 percent of U.S. employment, in the same way - rewarding workers financially, encouraging and empowering creative participation, creating professional communities, and so on. We can look to any number of new companies - from Zappos, to Starbucks, to American Apparel - for examples of how this idea might play itself out. We need to do more to make service jobs into higher-paying family-supporting jobs of the future.

For those of us that wake up every day and go to our jobs, we know our worth because we know the value we add to the world.

I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

Work is not the curse, but drudgery is.

A television job that's working is the best job in the world.

When I first got to WWE, the head of talent relations was John Laurinaitis, who is now my father-in-law, and the first thing I thought when I saw everything that he had to do is, I thought, 'I would never, in a million years, ever want that job. You could not pay me enough money to have that job.'

The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.

The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

I'm a big believer that when we put so much into our jobs - and everyone does - you deserve to be get paid for it instead of doing a gig and then having to work in a bar for eight hours.