Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety. — George Reisman Copy Share Image
All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We have to do a much better job at keeping our jobs. And we have to do a much better job at… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If elected, Hillary Clinton will be the least popular president to be elected in modern history. So there's going to be very… — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates,… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
In the United States especially, politics and economics don’t mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
Tax incentives might spur hiring in the short run, but how lasting are those gains if the jobs expire with the tax… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
What's awesome about social media is you curate your own experience. That leads to the rise of niche celebrities, who are actually… — Kevin Systrom Copy Share Image
The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is a sense in which, like, it could be the case that the incentives of running for president and the incentives… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
We have yet to discover the true incentive, the inner Will which will have an over-mastering effect upon our lives, and yet… — Nilakanta Sri Ram Copy Share Image
Incentives matter. Dreams matter. We cannot strip incentives away. Dreams are the foundation of the American dream, which is so intrinsic to… — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to. — William Weld Copy Share Image
The incentives are still rotten, and people are still paid to do things they shouldn't be doing. The reforms did not really… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've… — Henry Kravis Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the… — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once,… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
“We don’t mean to create the impression that any problem can be fixed with a simple shift of the framework or a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can… — Levitt & Dubner Copy Share Image
When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel… — Hal Higdon Copy Share Image
It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
So overall, though my life is far from perfect, I'm contented with it. And in a peculiar way, I'm grateful for the… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
