Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater! — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience. — Aaron Neville Copy Share Image
Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility. — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection… — J. B. Jackson Copy Share Image
Tokens align incentives between developers, contributors, users, and investors. They allow everyone who wants to contribute to a project early the opportunity… — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates,… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
When everybody is playing at the same level, there's so much more noise. And there's less incentive for the people who should… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
“The current regulations -- for companies, doctors and researchers -- create perverse incentives; and we'll have better luck fixing those broken systems… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
History is so full of high-level intelligence officials who actually worked for the other side that one is forced to conclude that… — Angelo Codevilla Copy Share Image
It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Saturday morning cartoons do that now, where they develop the toy and then draw the cartoon around it, and the result is… — Bill Watterson 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 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
There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
In education, it is said that the state must impose schooling on all children, else the parents and communities will neglect it.… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Instead of worrying about who's American and who's not, here's a better idea: Create incentives for any global company to do what… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a… — Henry Kravis Copy Share Image
All tax incentives do is make it cheaper to borrow for transportation projects. But you still have to pay that money back. — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to give people more of an incentive to work, to save, to invest, to create a true future for themselves. — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
