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

A reward once given becomes a right.

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

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.

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

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.