Incentives Quotes · Page 5

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

— Alfie Kohn

Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies.

— Richard Branson

The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

— Malcolm X

What looks like resistance in many cases is rational responses to incentives and ingrained resource-allocation processes.

— Scott D. Anthony

Politicians like to talk about incentives - for businesses to relocate, for example, or to get folks to buy local.

— Tom Golisano

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.

— Larry Williams

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

— Thomas Sowell

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to…

— Gary Numan

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of…

— G. H. Hardy

The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to…

— Ilana Mercer

Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through…

— Tyler Cowen

Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not…

— Paul Hawken

“The current regulations -- for companies, doctors and researchers -- create perverse incentives; and we'll have better luck fixing those broken systems…

— Ben Goldacre

People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.

— Steve Jobs

Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility.

— Dick Morris

We have come to world leadership because our people have had the opportunity to develop this nation under a government and a…

— Herbert V. Prochnow

“I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it…

— Anonymous

Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases,…

— Bill Gates

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it…

— Eliot Spitzer

We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is an ambitious…

— Larry Page

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one…

— Robert Sternberg

As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive.…

— Thomas Ligotti

Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping…

— Ramez Naam

One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

In a Bloomberg poll, 88% of respondents said that Wall Street bonuses should either be banned outright or taxed at 50%. Just…

— Felix Salmon

I believe in market economics. But to paraphrase Churchill - who said this about democracy and political regimes - a market economy…

— Nouriel Roubini

You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

— Gavin Newsom

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

— David Stern

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

— Marion Nestle

“The individual’s incentives must be aligned with the group’s goals.”

— Ray Dalio

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

— Fred L. Turner

Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

— Julian Assange

The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

— Aaron Neville

It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

— Phil Harding

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.

— Jimmy Wales

Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary.

— Steven Landsburg

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

— Mitt Romney

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

— Jane Addams

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

— Orison Swett Marden