You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him.

True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.

If you want someone to do a good job, give them a good job to do.

Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements.

It's the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each person's personal spark of motivation blaze.

It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.

Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.

A reward once given becomes a right.

Hell is truth seen too late.

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

Working to anticipate the future can be a distraction from the important task of dealing with the present.

I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that.

Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.