Frederick Herzberg Quotes

#1. Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements.

Frederick Herzberg

#2. Man does work for profit in order to enjoy pain; but in a positive sense, he works to enjoy the excitement and meaning that achievement provides for his own psychological growth and thereby his happiness.

Frederick Herzberg

#3. It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.

Frederick Herzberg

#4. Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.

Tom Scholz

#5. He comes back with the script, and it's racist like a 1940's Newspaper.

Katt Williams

#6. You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him.

Frederick Herzberg

#7. It's the little things that make up life.

Jenny Han

#8. Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.

Frederick Herzberg

#9. You would probably think that rock music is an urban phenomena, but the main reason for doing it in '68 was so that we could play music very loud any time of the day or night without getting complaints from the neighbours.

Steve Winwood

#10. True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.

Frederick Herzberg

#11. Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

Earl Browder

#12. It's the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each person's personal spark of motivation blaze.

Frederick Herzberg

#13. If you want someone to do a good job, give them a good job to do.

Frederick Herzberg

#14. A reward once given becomes a right.

Frederick Herzberg

#15. Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

Fanny Fern

#16. Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

Samuel Smiles