Quotes About Motivation

Resultó desconcertante para muchos lectores de La riqueza de las naciones descubrir que no es el altruismo ni la caridad, sino más bien el egoísmo, el motor del progreso:

Neue Züricher Zeitung 07.07.2016: Menschen aus völlig unterschiedlichen politischen Lagern mit völlig unterschiedlicher Motivation stemmen sich gegen das Unüberschaubare, das Unberechenbare, gegen Globalisierung und Kapitalismus – und zwar buchstäblich mit den Ideen der Steinzeit.

Descobri nessa altura que os romances se escreviam principalmente com obsessões e não com convicções, que o contributo do irracional era, pelo menos, tão importante como o racional na feitura duma ficção.

Look at Picasso. O'Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Always live your life with your biography in mind, Dad was fond of saying. Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

Grab the work when it comes, my man. Your competition is now a fourteen-year-old in pajamas with the username Truth-ninja-12 who believes fact-checking a story is reading his subject's Twitter feed. Be afraid.

Always life your life with your biography in mind. Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a magnificent reason, but at the very least you'll be living grandly.

Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

if my dad put half the energy he did into cutting corners into just driving around the corner, he'd be a billionaire.

I'm happy to see you so well-settled here. Now you must make an effort, you must become somebody. I don't care what you do later, only try to be the best. Even if you become a cabaret dance, better that you dance at the lido than in a hole in the wall.

As important as high aspirations and ideals are, we have to do something with them, and that takes courage. "He without an ideal is sorry indeed; he with an ideal and lacking courage to live it is sorrier still. Know that" (1402-1).

Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, 'Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea, It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.

Profit is the universal trigger of innovation.

Anger is uncomfortable; it is useful; it announces our boundaries and can goad us in the direction of our dreams; if unchanneled, it is a highly destructive force; if channeled for change, it is a booster rocket.

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming. . . . These people are waiting for a bus on a street where no busses pass. . . . They can end up waiting forever. And that is what most people do. BRIAN TRACY   

En la vida tienes que tomar montones de decisiones, y si no tomaras decisiones, nunca harías nada, porque te pasarías todo el tiempo eligiendo entre las cosas que hacer. O sea, que es bueno tener una razón por la que odias unas cosas y te gustan otras.

But in life you have to take lots of deductions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and why you like others.

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.

Enthusiasm and hard work are also indispensable ingredients of achievement.

leadership, and particularly turnaround leadership, is about defining a dream and tethering all aspects of the organization to it.

The leader steps into an organization in its darkest hour and says, "Friends, you only thought this was your darkest hour. In fact, this is your greatest opportunity. Let me show you why that's true." Note

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important. ABRAHAM MASLOW

There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what s/he is told to do. And the other is the person who does no more than s/he is told to do. - Andrew Carnegie