Quotes About Motivation

Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles.

not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.

In my new freedom I remember thinking: If one knows what he wants to do, others will not only not stand in the way but will lend a hand from simple curiosity and amazement.

If you want to help the poor, demonstrate to them that they can become rich; prove it by getting rich yourself.

You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.

You sit around feelin' sorry for yourself and you're dead. Sittin' on your ass can get to be a disease worse than what you got.

Eu intreb:Cine e cel ce-a trecut inainte? Pentru eu vreau sa trec si mai inainte!

If I'm going to have a fight I got to see the win in it so I'll know what I'm fighting for.

the ideas I found in books helped me imagine a life I wanted to live.

Everything you've ever done in your life is shit," Jobs said, "so why don't you come work for me?

up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve.

Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. "I make 50 cents for showing up," he liked to joke, "and the other 50 cents is based on performance.

Growing up, I got inspired by the history of the place," Jobs said.

I'm not sure," Atkinson replied. "Maybe six months." It was a wildly optimistic assessment, but also a motivating one.

After the applause, he used the quotations book to make a more subtle point, about his reality distortion field. The quote he chose was from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. After Alice laments that no matter how hard she tries she can't believe impossible things, the White Queen retorts, Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Especially from the front rows, there was a roar of knowing laughter.

Like many entrepreneurs, Bushnell had no shame about distorting reality in order to motivate people.

Wozniak began to rankle at Jobs's style. "Steve was too tough on people. I wanted our company to feel like a family where we all had fun and shared whatever we made.

The satisfaction of getting paid and saving up for something, that was very exciting.

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter.

If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much. Mr.

If he was displeased, he might scream and get hopping mad and use expletives, but he wouldn't do it in a way that would totally destroy the person he was talking to. It was just his way to get the person to do a better job.

I've learned over the years that when you have really good people you don't have to baby them," Jobs later explained. "By expecting them to do great things, you can get them to do great things.

My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary.