People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth — Bruno Frey Copy Share Image
I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in… — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or false. The importance… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
I am not somebody who just says let's beat up on the bad guys. No. I want to summon the good guys… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
We can attract new businesses and jobs in fast-growing industries through tax incentives, incubators, zoning tools and CUNY partnerships. — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and… — Witness Lee Copy Share Image
Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His… — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi Copy Share Image
What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
If you take a look at Medicare, there are things we could do, not just tort reform but truly reform the whole… — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve… — Bob Filner Copy Share Image
But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities… — Stephanie Tubbs Jones Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
We got to make sure that we have the incentives for people to rise and not put them in a position of… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to… — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a… — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed… — Walter Salles Copy Share Image
I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
I am aware of what the position is in the United States of America. If somebody gives to charity, then he gets… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
