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

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In…

— Daniel H. Pink

“If you happen to appear before a parole board just before a break rather than just after one, you’ll likely spend a…

— Daniel H. Pink

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

— Daniel H. Pink

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more…

— Daniel H. Pink

Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.

— Daniel H. Pink

When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in…

— Daniel H. Pink

Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the arts themselves.

— Daniel H. Pink

“In the middle, we relax our standards, perhaps because others relax their assessments”

— Daniel H. Pink

“The guy who invented the wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.” —SID CAESAR”

— Daniel H. Pink

Large companies are not going to disappear. Multinational companies with tens of thousands of employees are not going to disappear. In fact,…

— Daniel H. Pink

Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving…

— Daniel H. Pink

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

— Daniel H. Pink

“Policy makers and business leaders take note: money matters. But often the best use of money as a motivator is to pay…

— Daniel H. Pink

If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or…

— 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

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

— Daniel H. Pink

What is interesting is that John Lewis actually got interested initially in the civil rights movement because of a comic book. So…

— Daniel H. Pink

“Of course, the starting point for any discussion of motivation in the workplace is a simple fact of life: People have to…

— Daniel H. Pink

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

— Daniel H. Pink

“business writer Polly LaBarre notes, “The United States spends more on trash bags than ninety other countries spend on everything.”

— Daniel H. Pink

“about 48 percent of GE’s software is developed in India.”

— Daniel H. Pink

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

— Daniel H. Pink

Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had…

— Daniel H. Pink

Tens of millions of people have iPods, whereas eight years ago, they didn't know they were missing them.

— Daniel H. Pink