Job Worth Quotes

Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?

You have to put a market value on what you do.

When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.

If our American women are going to work to put food on the table and pay for the mortgage, then we better make sure that they get put into jobs that pay well and that pay their worth. That's why I'm such a huge advocate about computing jobs, because those are the jobs.

I think all of us want to work and get paid what we are worth.

I want to be compensated. If I'm working at the post office, and I'm sorting the same mail as the person to the right, and they're making $25 an hour and I'm making $21, I need to know what is this person doing so much better that he's getting $4 more than me. That's just knowing the market and being a smart businessman.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.

This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

Everyone's work is equally important.

There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.

When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a judge at a high court, of the deep sea diver of the cleaner of sewers, of the organiser of a new industry and a jockey, of the inspector of taxes and the inventor of a life-saving drug, of the jet-pilot or the professor of mathematics, the appeal to 'social justice' does not give us the slightest help in deciding.

Just like any other job, you want a raise you've got to put in the work and you've got to show that you're deserving and what you bring to the table and all kinds of other stuff to show that you're worthy of so and so pay scale.

The only way to earn what you're really worth is to get paid based on your results.

To take a job just so I can go on a fancy vacation doesn't really seem worth it.

Are you asking for a raise? Do your research and know your market value. Having an informed sense of your worth, as dictated by the broader marketplace, will give you greater confidence in requesting increased compensation. It's tough to dispute someone who can back up her assertions with facts and a smart, articulate argument.

You're only worth as much to one employer as you are to another.

If you haven't gotten a raise in the past couple years for a job well done, it might be time to ask for one.

When they talk about my job being important, I say, 'The important jobs are the ones that you'd notice if you left for a week.'

You want to be paid in respect to how your peers are paid.