Quotes About Motivation

It was as if this baseball coach had reached inside me, found a rusty switch marked: 'turn on before attempting use' - and flipped it.

we are most often rewarded for punishing others, and punished for rewarding.

No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.

Your biggest competitive advantage is that you don't want to fuck me.

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don't know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired. In

people don't learn what is imposed upon them but rather what they freely seek, out of desire or need. For people to learn, they need to want to learn.

why its Lessons Learned website was dumb. The gist of it was that people don't learn what is imposed upon them but rather what they freely seek, out of desire or need. For people to learn, they need to want to learn. "How many times have you traveled by air?" Carter began, in his report to his superiors.

For people to learn, they need to want to learn.

to Clark's way of thinking, the big distinction wasn't between "work" and "play" but between "creating new technology for money" and "creating new technology for pleasure.

Most physicians try to maintain this facade of being rational and scientific and logical and it's a great lie," said Redelmeier. "A partial lie. What leads us is hopes and dreams and emotion.

The gist of it was that people don't learn what is imposed upon them but rather what they freely seek, out of desire or need.

Fear and, to a lesser extent, greed are what make money move.

If you wanted to predict how people would behave, Munger said, you only had to look at their incentives.

If you're not interested in the thing, and if you're just in it for the money, then you're not really going to have a sense of achievement.

Clark couldn't stand the idea of anyone's working for him without having the chance to accumulate a bit of wealth.

it was the only time he'd done something just for the money, and that he'd never do something just for the money ever again.

He shouted into the phone, "That is fuckin' awesome. I mean fuckin' awesome. I fuckin' mean fucking awesome. You are one Big Swinging Dick, and don't ever let anybody tell you different." It brought tears to my eyes to hear it, to be called a Big Swinging Dick by the man who, years ago, had given birth to the distinction and in my mind had the greatest right to confer it upon me.

From the point of view of American culture, the trouble with disease prevention was that there was no money in it. She needed to find a way to make it pay.

He attracted followers as a magnet attracts filings. In other words, he was exactly the right man to take an inherently implausible idea and lead others to believe in it.

Morgan Stanley wanted to be able to trade for itself in a way it could not trade for its customers; it just didn't want to seem as if it wanted to.

Thomas Edison held 1,093 patents. He was a great believer in exercising his mind and the minds of his workers and felt that without a quota he probably wouldn't have achieved very much. His personal invention quota was a minor invention every ten days and a major invention every six months. To Edison, an idea quota was the difference between eating beefsteak or a plateful of Black Beauty stew.

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed in the past; what matters is the successful attempt, which should be remembered and reinforced.

Set yourself an idea quota for a challenge you are working on, such as five new ideas every day for a week. You'll find the first five are the hardest, but these will quickly trigger other ideas. The more ideas you come up with, the greater your chances of coming up with a winner.

A Holy War! What better than righteous piety to disguise over-reaching greed?