motivation— laws, rules, secrets. The best quotations and sayings with comments
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
You have to think big to be big.
It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.
Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.
Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.
There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.
People do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.
We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, and enslaves the workingman.
Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality.
I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
It is but a truism that labour is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labour is inefficient labour, all over the world.
The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.