Eric S. Raymond Quotes

Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.

Never find yourself bored at work.

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of.

Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

I don't mean this to sound cliche, but it's really about the work for me. I like to keep working on things.

Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.

I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.

Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'?

I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations.

I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.

Ever since I started my career, I have been busy with four to five releases a year. I enjoy being busy.

I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never get stuck.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

There is power in helping people get excited about what they do and inspiring and motivating them to unleash their full potential.

Work hard, take it seriously, embrace your ambition. And when you're not doing that, do something - whatever it happens to be - that taps into the part of you that makes you forget about all the rest of it.

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

I don't want to work more. I want to do limited but good work.

It can be a detriment to yourself to not be working, but at the same time, you want to hold true to what you're wanting to be working on.

If I can get some time off and still be productive and go 85-90 percent of the plays, that's fine with me.