"We know nothing about motivation. All we..." - Quote by Peter Drucker
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
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“All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.”
“Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity”
“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.”
More on Motivation
“I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.”
“If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.”
“When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!”
More on Knowledge
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.”
“What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know”
“... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.”