Incentives Quotes

Not getting enough retribution or decent incentives to keep me at it.

— Shakira

Let's give people more incentives to get fuel efficient vehicles.

— Mitt Romney

Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives

— Claude C. Hopkins

More climate-friendly, coordinated laws, policies, and incentives are needed.

— Patricia Espinosa

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

— Lara St. John

I do believe in tax incentives in order to move the economy forward.

— Steve Southerland

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

— Alain de Botton

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

— William Pollard

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

They [Chinese] are taking our jobs, they're giving incentives, they're doing things that, frankly, we don't do.

— Donald Trump

Anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls…

— Ann Coulter

Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

— John S. Watson

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

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

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

— Jimmy Wales

If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers…

— David Ignatius

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

The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages…

— Henry Hazlitt

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and…

— Arthur C. Brooks

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

— Robert Sternberg

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

— Larry Page

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

— Anonymous

In the United States especially, politics and economics don’t mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of…

— Anonymous

A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The money has to be deferred with what they call "clawback," which means they can get it back if I lose it…

— Richard Thaler

I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the…

— Thomas Pogge

One of the best ways to make growth personal is to give employees a share in their firm, a real incentive to…

— Nick Clegg

So let us ask ourselves this evening, in adoring Christ who is really present in the Eucharist: do I let myself be…

— Pope Francis

Will a guaranteed annual wage kill incentive among the poor? If a man is given a certain amount of security, won't he…

— Pierre Berton

I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very…

— Mitt Romney

Technology isn't simply addictive - it's addictive because it's a servant to business incentives. There are huge departments in these companies that…

— Astra Taylor

“When I applied to graduate school many years ago, I wrote an essay expressing my puzzlement at how a country that could…

— Charles Wheelan

I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.

— Richard Thaler

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

— John N. Mitchell

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.

— Jayne Mansfield

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

— Nikita Khrushchev

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

— Ralph Nader

When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.

— Robert Motherwell