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Revenge of the Demotivators

By Bill Detwiler July 28, 2006, 12:29 AM PDT on Twitter billdetwiler

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Revenge of the Demotivators

Arrogance

Arrogance

ntThe best leaders inspire by example. When that’s not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well, too.
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ntWhen your servers crash, end users scream, and network grinds to a halt, let these Demotivators make you smile. These soul-crushingly funny explanations of defeat, futility, failure, disloyalty and more, remind you that it could always be worse.
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Change

Change

ntWhen the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles.
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Defeat

Defeat

For every winner, there are dozens of losers. Odds are you’re one of them.

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Disloyalty

Disloyalty

There comes a time when every team must learn to make individual sacrifices.

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Disservice

Disservice

It takes months to find a customer, but only seconds to lose one… the good news is that we should run out of them in no time.

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Dreams

Dreams

Dreams are like rainbows. Only idiots chase them.

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Effort

Effort

Hard work never killed anybody, but it is illegal in some places.

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Fear

Fear

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea

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Flattery

Flattery

If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom.

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Futility

Futility

You’ll always miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take, and, statistically speaking, 99 percent of the shots you do.

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Goals

Goals

It’s best to avoid standing directly between a competitive jerk and his goals.

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Hazards

Hazards

There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. Miss that, though, and you’re pretty much doomed.

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Ignorance

Ignorance

It’s amazing how much easier it is for a team to work together when no one has any idea where they’re going.

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Indifference

Indifference

It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it doesn’t take any to just sit there with a dumb look on your face.

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Irresponsibility

Irresponsibility

No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.

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Limitations

Limitations

Until you spread your wings, you’ll have no idea how far you can walk.

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Nepotism

Nepotism

We promote family values here – almost as often as we promote family members.

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Persistence

Persistence

It’s over, man. Let her go.

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Pretension

Pretension

The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you’re pretentious.

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Stupidity

Stupidity

Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots.

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Teamwork

Teamwork

A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.

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