If you expect a man to give his time and energy, fix his wages so that he will have no financial worries.
 Henry Ford, My Life and Work (1922). copy citation

add
Author Henry Ford
Source My Life and Work
Topic energy time
Date 1922
Language English
Reference
Note
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7213/pg7213-images.html

Context

“we now think so little of our turnover that we do not bother to keep records. As far as we know the turnover is somewhere between 3 per cent. and 6 per cent. a month. We have made changes in the system, but we have not deviated from this principle: If you expect a man to give his time and energy, fix his wages so that he will have no financial worries. It pays. Our profits, after paying good wages and a bonus—which bonus used to run around ten millions a year before we changed the system—show that paying good wages is the most profitable way of doing business.” source