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

A reward once given becomes a right.

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

Man does work for profit in order to enjoy pain; but in a positive sense, he works to enjoy the excitement and meaning that achievement provides for his own psychological growth and thereby his happiness.

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

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

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.