"Bonus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mrs. Joyce again, more privately. "I work 'em hard—and pay 'em a bonus—a dollar a week extra, as long as they give satisfaction. It reduces my ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... I may be gratefully remembered by my Liege Lord, and that he will be gracious enough to entertain me favourably with something in the shape of prize or bonus in reward for such open testimony as ...
— Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. • F. Anstey
... The bonus over here, even if it passes, can never be an excuse for the rich and leisured not to go among the wounded either at their homes or in the hospitals. Gassed, crippled and shell-shocked, their outlook ...
— My Impresssions of America • Margot Asquith
... influence belongs to the consciousness of the approach to the end of work; the feeling of the nearness of the close heightens the achievement, even of the fatigued subject. It would not be difficult to connect psychophysical experiments of this kind with the problems of the task and bonus system, which is nowadays so much discussed in industrial life. The practical successes seem to prove that the individual can do more with equal effort if he does not stand before an unlimited mass of work of which he has to do as much as possible in the course of the day, but if ...
— Psychology and Industrial Efficiency • Hugo Muensterberg
... cried Morris. 'Why, that's something like thirty per cent. bonus; a singular thing! Who's ...
— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
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