You have something of infinitely greater importance, greater value, at stake.

Your honor, your whole career, your future success, will be affected by the way you do your work, by the conscience or lack of it which you put into your job.

Character, manhood and womanhood are at stake, compared with which salary is nothing.
Everything you do is a part of your career.

If any work that goes out of your hands is skimped, shirked, bungled, or botched, your character will suffer.

If your work is badly done; if it goes to pieces; if there is shoddy or sham in it; if there is dishonesty in it, there is shoddy, sham, dishonesty in your character.