Incentives Quotes

I think we have to take a look at corporate law. We have to take a look at the incentives that we…

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Dick Morris

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the…

— Barry Schwartz

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of…

— Samuel Smiles

Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.

— David Limbaugh

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family…

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Jimmy Wales

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

— Marion Nestle

We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.

— Jeff Bezos

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

— Edward Norton

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs…

— Mitt Romney

In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

— Ilana Mercer

Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.

— Mitt Romney

I am aware of what the position is in the United States of America. If somebody gives to charity, then he gets…

— Nelson Mandela

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

— James M. Buchanan

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

— Henry Hazlitt

It is a mistake - as so many over-centralized socialist societies have discovered - to try to eliminate money as an incentive.…

— Philip Slater

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

— Thomas Pogge

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive…

— Philip Sidney

Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives

— Claude C. Hopkins

Producers shoot movies where the tax incentives are.

— William Fichtner

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away…

— Thomas Peterffy

Green is not just about renewable energy. It's also about creating a new direction for the whole economy. This requires government to…

— Mariana Mazzucato

When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself…

— Immanuel Kant

I didn't get a chance to meet Glen [Beck] for this movie. I did meet him a few years ago, coincidentally, before…

— Zachary Quinto