Incentives Quotes · Page 7

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

— Larry Page

Over a period of time, they [undocumented workers] can have a legalized status that allows them to live a life of dignity…

— Jeb Bush

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

— Donald Trump

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a…

— Margaret Deland

Sellers in general maintain the quality of their products and services for fear of losing customers otherwise. But, when price controls create…

— Thomas Sowell

I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.

— Greg Fitzsimmons

There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the…

— Michael Pollan

If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get…

— Mehmet Oz

You must have the confidence to override people with more credentials than you whose cognition is impaired by incentive-caused bias or some…

— Charlie Munger

Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be…

— Daniel Kahneman

It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work…

— Frank Smith

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one…

— Neal Stephenson

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

I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit…

— Max Baucus

We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive…

— Susan Wojcicki

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

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

— Andrew Lincoln

What's awesome about social media is you curate your own experience. That leads to the rise of niche celebrities, who are actually…

— Kevin Systrom

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

— Thomas Sowell

So just to be clear, Microsoft has created a new operating system that isn't properly compatible with a best-selling, still perfectly useable…

— Robert Peston

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole…

— Virginia Wade

If you take sales presentations and brokers of commercial real estate and businesses... I'm 70 years old, I've never seen one I…

— Charlie Munger

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how…

— Dan Ariely

What if I promise not to touch you?" "Cath laughed. "Now I have zero incentive to come." "What if I promise to…

— Rainbow Rowell

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

— Alfie Kohn