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“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.”

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Author:Robert Heller

“I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.”

“What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.”

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Author:Stephen Leacock

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.”

Source: The human organization: its management and value

“The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.”

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Author:Lisa Fernandez

“When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions.”

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Author:J. Richard Hackman

“You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.”