English / proverb
If You Pay Bananas, You Get Monkeys
MEANING IN ENGLISH
If you offer substandard compensation or inadequate resources, you will inevitably end up with incompetent workers.
In context
01
The audit failed because management hired underpaid interns; if you pay bananas, you get monkeys.
02
When building an anti-corruption team, invest in integrity, because if you pay bananas, you get monkeys.
Synonyms
you get what you pay for,cheap labor yields cheap results,skimping breeds incompetence
Antonyms
fair wages attract excellence,quality commands investment,premium rewards bring mastery
Collocations
remember that if you pay bananas you get monkeys,prove that if you pay bananas you get monkeys,warn that if you pay bananas you get monkeys