"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated"

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it"

"Believe you can and you're halfway there"

"I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you"

"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity"

"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons"

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it"

"I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality"

"People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time"

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game"

"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity"