Individual Motivation Quotes

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Motivation is something nobody else can give you. Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.

For income growth to occur in a society, a large fraction of people must experience changes in the possible lives they imagine for themselves and their children, and these new visions of possible futures must have enough force to lead them to change the way they behave.

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

We look for people who are passionate about something. In a way, it almost doesn’t matter what you’re passionate about. What we really look for when we’re interviewing people is what they’ve shown an initiative to do on their own.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

Look, at the end of the day, we do what we do because it suits us.

'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.

Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.

The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

People will do something—including changing their behavior—only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values.

Every one is witty for his owne purpose.

You can't manufacture passion or "motivate" people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you.

Men will always be powerfully influenced in their Opinions and Actions by what appears to be their particular Interest.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

People who intend only to seek their own benefit are “led by an invisible hand to serve a public interest which was no part of” their intention. I say that there is a reverse invisible hand: People who intend to serve only the public interest are led by an invisible hand to serve private interests which was no part of their intention.

You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.

My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing. Figure out what works for you, what turns you on, what gives you the greatest amount of energy and feeling of satisfaction.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.