Daniel H. Pink

“if we stick with a task too long, we lose sight of the goal”

— Daniel H. Pink

The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.

— Daniel H. Pink

For creative tasks, the best approach is often just to hire great people and get out of their way.

— Daniel H. Pink

“E-mail response time is the single best predictor of whether employees are satisfied with their boss”

— Daniel H. Pink

“single largest motivator was making progress in meaningful work.”

— Daniel H. Pink

“Say it with me now, brothers and sisters: Lunch is the most important meal”

— Daniel H. Pink

“sharp-minded analytic capacities peak in the late morning or around noon”

— Daniel H. Pink

Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.

— Daniel H. Pink

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating…

— Daniel H. Pink

When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive.…

— Daniel H. Pink

It's nothing short of a whole new brain... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life.

— Daniel H. Pink

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

— Daniel H. Pink

“change is inevitable, and when it happens, the wisest response is not to wail or whine but to suck it up and…

— Daniel H. Pink

“Intrinsic motivation is of great importance for all economic activities. It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by…

— Daniel H. Pink

“Carrots & sticks are so last century. Drive says for 21st century work, we need to upgrade to autonomy, mastery & purpose.”

— Daniel H. Pink

Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

— Daniel H. Pink

Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's…

— Daniel H. Pink

Newtonian physics runs into problems at the subatomic level. Down there--in the land of hadrons, quarks, and Schrödinger's cat--things gent freaky. The…

— Daniel H. Pink

A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of…

— Daniel H. Pink

“A genuine smile involves two facial muscles: (1) the zygomatic major muscle, which stretches from the cheekbone and lifts the corners of…

— Daniel H. Pink

To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's…

— Daniel H. Pink

Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the…

— Daniel H. Pink

Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on…

— Daniel H. Pink

You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer…

— Daniel H. Pink

“in counties containing teaching hospitals, fatal medication errors spiked by 10% in July”

— Daniel H. Pink

“innovation and creativity are greatest when we are not at our best”

— Daniel H. Pink

All of us want to be part of something bigger than ourselves, something that matters.

— Daniel H. Pink

“later start time high school graduation rates increased by more than 11 percent”

— Daniel H. Pink

“2016 study looked at more than eight hundred workers (mostly in information technology, education,”

— Daniel H. Pink

“We leave lucrative jobs to take low-paying ones that provide a clearer sense of purpose.”

— Daniel H. Pink

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

— Daniel H. Pink

“morning people to be pleasant, productive folks—“introverted,”

— Daniel H. Pink

“elite performers have something in common: They’re really good at taking breaks”

— Daniel H. Pink

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

— Daniel H. Pink

“People born in the fall and winter are more likely to be larks;”

— Daniel H. Pink

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

— Daniel H. Pink

“He who laughs last doesn’t get it.” —HELEN GIANGREGORIO”

— Daniel H. Pink

“the more they chat and gossip—the more they get done”

— Daniel H. Pink

“start planning how to achieve those top five goals. And the other twenty? Get rid of them.”

— Daniel H. Pink

“We simply don’t take issues of when as seriously as we take questions of what”

— Daniel H. Pink