Quotes About Motivation

Strategy and tactics, discipline and protocol are necessary, but they're just the beginning. You have to know people, Byron. How they think, what motivates them. Watch. Learn.

Time to start doing," I whispered.

It was the same principle as cleaning a really messy room. You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then more onto the next.

People are likely to do the most ridiculously illogical things for the most incomprehensible of reasons.

You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them.

It's what you do with the want that matters.

What matters is the success or failure of your will. Your will to overcome human weakness. Your will to work. To learn. I will have no shirkers here, boy.

They're just itching for me to lead them in some meaningful crusade against evil. Hell, I have trouble just paying the bills.

You don't help people sand off any rough edges by telling them how much they suck. I'd hadn't always been so different from the kid.

I've never met a place I couldn't blow up, burn down, or knock over with enough motivation

I had to get myself moving before the problem started looking too big. It was the same principle as cleaning a really messy room. You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then move on to the next.

Why did you do it?" I got annoyed. "I had personal reasons." "Which are?" "Personal," I said.

Sometimes it scares me how easy it is to get people to do what you want them to do, if you know something about them.

Greed is a nice, sterile motivation. If the money's right, you don't need to know someone to take advantage of them. You don't have to hate them, or love them, or be related to them. You don't even have to know who they are. You just have to want money more than you want them to keep on breathing, and if history is any indicator, that isn't a terribly uncommon frame of mind.

Peter Drucker once observed that the drive for mergers and acquisitions comes less from sound reasoning and more from the fact that doing deals is a much more exciting way to spend your day than doing actual work.35

Gente boa precisa ter coisas grandes para fazer, senão leva sua energia criativa para outro lugar.

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What do they want? What are their fears? What are their objections to buying either what you sell or what anybody is selling out there?

Features don't make somebody buy something. The benefit of those features gets them to buy from you.

Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.

Remember to forget what lies behind, reach and press forward.

Just start at page one and write like a son of a bitch." —Jim Harrison

The more Wayne inhabited Edison, the more he wondered how a man cultivates a stubborn streak so pronounced that it transforms a daily barrage of failures into stimulants.

Maybe it don't seem to make sense for a fella to be doing things for a reason that he don't know about. But I reckon I've been doing it most of my life.