Quotes About Reward

People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Some psychologists call it a conflict between ego-orientation, or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation... but in all cases, what counts is whether attention is turned away from the task at hand and focused on the self and its future rewards, or whether it is instead trained on the task itself. The latter attitude seems the more fruitful.

You never have a chance for your luck to operate if you don't take risks.

39:4.13 There is no material reward for righteous living, but there is profound satisfaction — consciousness of achievement — and this transcends any conceivable material reward.

A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to get to twenty. The beauty of numbers. When it drops to ten again he waits for it to get back to eighteen. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten. Well, it gets back there. But he has wasted a quarter of his life. And all he's got out of his money is a little mathematical excitement.

I realized that rewards are not the goal- if one seeks the ultimate it will elude you. The reward is life itself, in its richness, in its sadness, and joy.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey—or anyone else for that matter—is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to them.

That's why it is good to remind ourselves that in business and in life, the journey, not the destination, is the reward.

So what if you've been blowing every paycheck on "rewarding" yourself for surviving another week?

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

Maybe sometimes the best things are worth waiting for possibly.

The best investment opportunities are often scary.

If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's that piece of how others respond.

What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.

Business is hard, really hard, but it's worth it.

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can't be shared.

People are hungry for success without work.