Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.
If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. . . . But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.
The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!
The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.
Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.
I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.
If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it.
I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.
Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.