You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But here's the thing -- even… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an inefficient system with a lot of waste that didn't also… — Barack Obama 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
Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it. — John S. Watson Copy Share Image
The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work. — Jayne Mansfield 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
The incentive for the outsider is to attack the system right up to the moment he is co-opted by it. The incentive… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client… — Robert Pozen 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
But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're a bit spongy, vulnerable to the unsettling energy of others, count yourself lucky. You've been given an incentive to armor… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I'm content with what I can do and… — John Bingham Copy Share Image
Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes.… — Nicholas Jarecki Copy Share Image
You can be totally committed to conservative principles - to individual liberty, a market economy, entrepreneurship and lower taxes - and still… — Newt Gingrich 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
What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
