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“Rewards can deliver a short-term boost—just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you cranking for a few more hours. But the effect wears off—and, worse, can reduce a person’s longer-term motivation to continue the project.”

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Book:Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

“The need of the hour is to think big. The more we focus on skill, scale & speed, it will increase India's growth trajectory.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third season - tell the story of this man. You're not under any obligation, really, to do massive expositional stuff at the beginning. You're at liberty to say, "Come with us on this journey," and, gradually, you become aware of what his motivations are, what drives him, what his weaknesses are, what his strengths are. That's what I think's sucking people into these worlds, because it is kind of like a novel, you just go really, really deep.”

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Author:Cillian Murphy

“You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.”

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Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.”

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Author:Armand Hammer

“If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.”

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Author:Robert Pozen

“What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'”

“No matter how many times I witness the miracle of someone having their sight restored, I'm still overwhelmed with emotion. When the eye patch comes off just 24 hours after surgery and you see that smile light up the room, you are witnessing a life being transformed.”

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Author:Gabi Hollows

“As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.”

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Author:Ben Horowitz