Our new intern, Rebecca Forsell, and I were driving back from a shoot for the school district the other day and we were talking about the passion of working vs. the obligation of working. She is reading Life without Principle and reminded me about this quote:
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
I need to incorporate the quote somehow into Brockit’s presence because this really summarizes why we do what we do – we LOVE what we do.
Thanks, Rebecca. The whole exerpt below.
“The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get ‘a good job,’ but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
“The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. You may raise money enough to tunnel a mountain. but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business. An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.”
