Uncompensated Work Quotes

No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -- except the housewife.

Free labor will win.

I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.

I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.

Public Service was never meant to be an easy living.

My mother was a housewife, and she had no job throughout her entire life.

I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

Owners never paid my salary. I always recognized that it was the people in the seats who did. I always wanted to give my best.

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.

As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

A lot of work - unattributed, with no dollars - goes into taking care of kids.

I didn't get paid to go to Kansas State.

If I care for an elderly relative without payment, it is not work, is not counted in national income, and, as it is not labour, is not counted as work. Should my neighbour pay me to do precisely the same tasks, it would contribute to economic growth.