Fear is always a good motivator.

Anger is a good motivator.

Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

A lot of governments fear American imperialism of all kinds, whether it is our food or our Internet. I think that the people like McDonald's hamburgers and they also like the Internet, so it's kind of the government trying to control what people do.

Since the caveman days, fear has been a powerful motivator that can influence our decision-making. Nowadays, however, we aren’t running from wild animals, but instead are afraid of emotional trauma, change, disappointment and rejection.