“I ran for president because I wanted to help Lithuania and its people during a difficult time. My country was on the very edge of an economic crisis, and people were disappointed by the economic situation and the political elite. We all needed change and motivation to consolidate our efforts in order to overcome the difficulties.” PeopleCountryHelpingWantedPoliticalMotivationOrderDifficultPresidentEffortSituationEconomicNeededOvercomingDifficultyCrisisEdgesRanDisappointedElitesDifficult TimesEconomic CrisisLithuaniaNeeded Change Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.” PeopleIfsWayMaySpiritMotivationFightingIndividualInterestEconomicGainsMethodFundamentalsMiserySocialismObjectivesPsychologicalFactorsCommunismRevolutionaryDryRemoveGoodsNot InterestedAlienationMarxismRepercussions Author:Che Guevara
“[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived.” PeopleWorldMotivationNovelInfluenceEconomicPeriodsPsychologicalCommentAllusion Author:Orson Welles
“There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws.” MadeLawPoliticalMotivationCompanyEconomicPoliticianOceanProfit Author:Paul Watson
“The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have always felt that denies in the economic world a very large part of the motivation.” WorldMotivationFeltEconomicReturnEconomicsDenyAttractionGrantedThrust Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“The Tea Party, which is pretty darn clear on its main focus, which is fiscal restraint, financial restraint, economic restraint, and return to Constitutional values and Founding Fathers' principles, had been impugned as racist, violent, homophobic, and all their motivations have been impugned.” Has BeensMotivationValuesFatherPartyPrinciplesClearFocusEconomicReturnFinancialViolentTeaRacistRestraintFoundingTea PartyHomophobic Author:Andrew Breitbart
“From the time I first understood economic principles, I was always concerned also that any system be operated on an efficient basis, which meant decentralization because knowledge is not concentrated anywhere. It's based on motivation, and so these are the advantages of, say, the cautious case for capitalism, that the market system is efficient.” FirstsMotivationPrinciplesCasesEconomicUnderstoodCapitalismAdvantageConcernedBasesEfficientCautiousDecentralization Author:Kenneth Arrow
“Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.” NeedsHumansSelfRealityMotivationValuesAcceptingEconomicTheoryHigherHighestIncludingImpulseClassicInadequateSelf ActualizationHuman NeedsActualizationEconomic TheoryPeak Experiences Author:Abraham Maslow
“To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men!” MenMotivationEconomyEconomicCriticsCampaignsPessimistic Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger