Sentence examples for motivators from inspiring English sources

Because money is paired with many strong motivators, it often becomes strongly motivating itself.

Samuel Beckett, thanks to the line containing the words "fail better", is enjoying a new and unlikely half-life among captains of industry, tennis players and motivators (amusingly, Richard Branson, acknowledging the quote's primary authorship, said "from the playwright, Samuel Beckett, but it could just as easily come from the mouth of yours truly").

However gruelling their experience first time, they are impelled to try again by three formidable human motivators: pride, ego and revenge.History bears this out.

They quote Frederick Herzberg's view that the job itself is the source of true motivation, backing up their claim with studies such as one where staff cited pay as fifth on their list of top ten motivators.

Not many have taken the view of Warren Buffett, an investment guru, who condemns them as "wildly capricious in their distribution of rewards, inefficient as motivators, and inordinately expensive for shareholders".

Corporate DNA, they suggest, consists of "four basic building blocks: decision rights; information; motivators; and structure".

"We start by working to dispel the stereotype that all businesses are identical in terms of the motivators behind business activities," he says.

The best motivators for academic excellence are money, recognition and team spirit.

Adam Smith wrote extensively about the central role of altruism and regard for others as motivators of human behaviour.

In the age of routine production it made sense for organisations to rely on sticks and carrots or "extrinsic motivators", as he calls them.

Training courses are clearly powerful motivators.