Quotes and Sayings About Incentives
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The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
-- Abdallah II -
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
-- Alain de Botton -
The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.
-- Andrew Lincoln -
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
-- Arthur C. Brooks -
With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.
-- Ben Bernanke -
Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
-- Ben Bernanke -
Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.
-- Bob Filner -
Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth
-- Bruno Frey -
It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.
-- Bruno Frey -
Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.
-- Carlos Slim -
When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.
-- Carlos Slim -
Here's the deal. I get to marry you. You get to become a Garrett - although, considering what you're marrying into, I'm not certain that's much of an incentive." Dallas to Amy
-- Cindy Gerard -
Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives
-- Claude C. Hopkins -
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
-- Colson Whitehead -
The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.
-- Dan Ariely -
When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.
-- Dave Van Ronk -
I'm doing the 2015 5x50 challenge because ... t’s the most awesome incentive for your daily motivation!
-- David -
Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached
-- David Bryant -
Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as an incentive for people to show up early.
-- David Ulevitch -
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
-- Edward Norton -
There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.
-- Elinor Ostrom -
Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.
-- Eliot Spitzer -
The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.
-- Elizabeth Berg -
Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior.
-- Emily Oster -
Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.
-- Francis Atterbury -
It's just economics 101: When it's free to pollute, you get more pollution. But when there's a price to pay, industry will have an incentive to find low-cost carbon solutions.
-- Fred Krupp -
I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.
-- Fred L. Turner -
The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.
-- Frederick W. Smith
