“Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.”

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play”

“«Gavin did not enjoy his hard work. The optimistic startup guys sending in these crazy proposals were guys who enjoyed their work. Gavin had the solid, old-fashioned idea that work should be painful, so that people would pay you for doing it. If the “work” was fulfilling, then work was a form of entertainment. The workers should be paying people for being entertained.»”

“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”

“Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker's pay; leaving without approval meant losing that money and starting over somewhere else. That was a fact of factory life you couldn't know from the outside: Getting into a factory was easy. The hard part was getting out.”