As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once,… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
“We don’t mean to create the impression that any problem can be fixed with a simple shift of the framework or a… — Anonymous 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
It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
“Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can… — Levitt & Dubner Copy Share Image
A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts-the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward. When neither is present, one… — John Moulder Wilson Copy Share Image
This was years ago, I think during the early [Ronald] Reagan years. I came up with a plan that everybody just pay… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.… — W. E. B. Du Bois 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
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 Copy Share Image
“The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and… — Mohammed Ali Muhiyaddin 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
Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Instead of building housing in a wealthy neighborhood and saying, here you go, here's some under the market which will, by the… — Eric Bolling Copy Share Image
To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who buy annuities, it turns out, live longer than people who don't, and not because the people who buy annuities are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What had the board been doing when they see these things happening. I mean, you can write a law that says you… — John Kasich 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
Cities could open up their property and assets to sharing economy apps that make it easier to find parking spaces or homes… — Pierre Nanterme Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Republican tax cut threatens to undercut both veterans health care and the veterans educational benefits that have been recognized for decades… — Lane Evans Copy Share Image
There's only one problem that bothers me. And that's something my theorem [ of Impossibility] really doesn't cover. In my theorem I… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
It feels like the older you get - or maybe that doesn't even matter - you have to get a forcing incentive… — Pontus Winnberg Copy Share Image
Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin American governments. It embodied what Latin Americans call… — Stephen Kinzer 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
I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but… — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family… — Zainab Salbi 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
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
They made a mistake. And it was an easy mistake to make. I don't regard setting incentives aggressively as a mistake. I… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
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