Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the… — John McGinnis Copy Share Image
Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to… — Daniel J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
I just think you've created an industry now, where you create the situation where very much you've created an incentive for people… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having… — Ibrahim Rugova Copy Share Image
There are 60 million generators in Nigeria. The generator owners and distributors have a strong incentive to not encourage the distribution of… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes -- or jobs… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that you need a State Department that looks like the litigation department of a major law firm. But you… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
“When the solution to a given problem doesn’t lay right before our eyes, it is easy to assume that no solution exists.… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it:… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I mean, these are kids that are getting on rail cars, riding the top of rail cars all the way up through… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives. — David Stern Copy Share Image
Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary. — Steven Landsburg Copy Share Image
Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not… — Dave Ulrich Copy Share Image
... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to… — Cee Lo Green Copy Share Image
Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make… — Vernon Jordan Copy Share Image
Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's something I'm gonna' learn… — Bill Skarsgard Copy Share Image
The left's inability to understand the most basic economic fact - that people need an incentive to produce - has caused the… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
I understand when there's no money for the arts in the government, but it should maybe pressure private companies to support more… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I don't believe in cancer walks. Well, I believe in them because they exist but I'd rather just give money straight up… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
I think that if you have a single payer system and an opt-out for people who want to pay more [for better… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
![“I think that if you have a single payer system and an opt-out for people who want to pay more [for better service, etc.], I think it would be better - and I think we'll eventually get there. It wouldn't be better at the top - [our current system] is the best in the world at the top. But the waste…” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/333/charlie-munger-458_currents_i-think-that-if-you-have-a-single-payer_3236714.jpg)