A Quote by Daniel H. Pink

If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're giving them a paycheck, I'm not sure you have the most productive workplace there.

Daniel H. Pink

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Daniel H. Pink
American - Author
Born: 1964

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Ken Robinson

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When I do things with people it's not with the hopes of them coming back because that would be a selfish reason for me to do anything.

Mic Geronimo

Before the Internet, all most people cared about was Office. And Office was really the only reason anyone wanted Windows machines instead of Macs.

Michael Arrington

I never once had a regular paycheck. Not for more than six weeks in a row and for the most part not even that. I still haven't. The notion of some whistling kid with a mail cart coming down the hall and handing me my weekly paycheck is something I've only seen in Matthew Broderick movies.

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Ken Schwaber

A workplace that encourages self-awareness is an environment where the most productive, curious, and innovative people thrive.

Neil Blumenthal

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Charles McCarry

Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it.

Blase J. Cupich

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Macaulay Culkin

I have to tell you, I live paycheck to paycheck like most Americans. It's very difficult for me to say, 'Hey, I can give up my paycheck,' because the reality is, I have financial obligations that I have to meet on a month-to-month basis that doesn't make it possible for me.

Linda Sanchez

Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.

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