![There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.](https://quotes.happiom.com/wp-content/uploads/6/david-graeber-quotes-163491-there-seems-a-general-rule-that.png)
There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.
– David Graeber
Related Quotes:
- In trees, monkeys rule;on land, lions rule;in the sky, eagles rule;in the waters, whales rule. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- IMF is really designed to protect creditors not debtors. – David Graeber
- Being selfish only benefits a few. Considering others benefits all of mankind. – Terraine Francois
- Religious faith as a whole induces various health benefits in the general population through complex biological processes. – Abhijit Naskar
- Less fear, more courage.Less doubt, more faith.Less talking, more action.Less ignorance, more knowledge. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. – Napoleon Hill
- ???????utes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others’ clothes on. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- In every dream, there lays a cost to be paid. The potency and relevance of your ideas will determine the cost to be paid! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Do much more than you are being paid for today because someday, you will be paid much more than you are doing. – George Bank
- And I think, if thoughts are worth a penny, how much less promises must be worth. Especially the ones you’re likely to break. – Neal Shusterman
- Parenthood is like that…the harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones – Laurie Frankel
- No, General. I’m not your subordinate. And what I’m coming dangerously close to is violence.-General Wedge Antilles – Aaron Allston
- As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it. – Alexandre Dumas
- Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for ????ography in half. – David Brooks
- Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. – Charlotte Bront
- The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule! – Ana Claudia Antunes
- The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do. – Stefan Molyneux
- As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don’t shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess. – Ana Claudia Antunes
- But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work. – Colleen McCullough
- It’s a small-town rule: Never speak ill of the dead until the estate has paid the outstanding bills. – Leslie Meier
- As a general rule, if anyone ever asks you to put stockings on a ninety-year old deceased Romanian woman with oedema, your answer should be no. – Caitlin Doughty
- As a general rule the one who is not easily accessible is more valuable. – Amit Kalantri
- As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped. – Rick Riordan
- Darwinian evolution has obviously not had enough time to work. – George Hammond
- Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times. – Hope Jahren
- The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- You said one day you would come back for usThe ones that believed in youThe ones that asked you into their heartsThe ones that served you – April Nichole
- Relationship is made for two people, but obviously some people don’t know how to count. – Nina Ardianti
- for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR. – William J Federer
- Is that a rule? Do you have a rule that you can’t kiss people in the morning? – Holly Hood
- I figure the more people think I’m just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am. – Melanie Hooyenga
- Everything burned, everyone lied, and no one paid for it but the ones in the muck. – Chris Galford
- The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured. – Rick Warren
- Live more, whine less. Smile more, worry less. Love more, hate less. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. – Jack London
- Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- In any power game, it seems, the dominant party is the least likely to be aware of what is going on. – Tim Parks