Frederick Herzberg quotes

“If you want someone to do a good job, give them a good job to do.”
-- Frederick Herzberg

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“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

Source : Frederick Herzberg (1982). “The managerial choice: to be efficient and to be human”

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“True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.”
-- Frederick Herzberg

Source : "Financial Times Handbook of Management". P. 229. Book by Stuart Crainer and ‎Des Dearlove, 2004.

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“Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.”
-- Frederick Herzberg

Source : "Punished by Rewards: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes". Book by Alfie Kohn, p. 205, 1999.

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“A reward once given becomes a right.”
-- Frederick Herzberg

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“You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him.”
-- Frederick Herzberg

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“There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.”

“Its sort of my job to feel good.”

“You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.”

“Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.”

“The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.”

“Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.”

“Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153

“There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.”

Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.