Quotes in motivation

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

In short, "Do this and you'll get that" makes people focus on the "that" not the "this." Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

Kaizen does not attempt to light a fire under people. It lights the fire within them.

I think one thing I find very motivating -- and I think this is probably a very common form of motivation or cause of motivation is, I love people counting on me, and so, you know, today it's so easy to be motivated, because we have millions of customers counting on us at Amazon.com. We've got thousands of investors counting on us. And, we're a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. That's fun.

The answer to the question managers so often ask of behavioral scientists "How do you motivate people?" is, "You don't."

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.