#motivate

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

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We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more. ↗

— John Krasinski

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The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not. ↗

— Eric Anderson

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My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#caught #circumstances #difficult #difficult circumstances #films

You can motivate by a mission or motivate by money. The mission will work. ↗

— Ron Johnson

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To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#bunch #down #get #goes #into

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#ahead #close #enough #far #leaders

If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win. ↗

— Carl Lewis

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Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

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