I'd rather hire a hard worker than someone just motivated. It is laughably easy to kill someones drive and motivation (see burnout), where a hard worker is stil

I'd rather hire a hard worker than someone just motivated. It is laughably easy to kill someones drive and motivation (see burnout), where a hard worker is still going to put forward their best effort regardless of how they feel about the work they are doing. But if you are a big company it that can burn through people, it might be better to hire the motivated as they tend to put in free extra hours, where as a hard workers tend to quit at quittin time and go do something else.