Incentives Quotes

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

— Plato

“I have learned that human beings are all about incentives”

— Harlan Coben

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

— John N. Mitchell

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

— Ovid

“Humans respond to incentives.”

— Steven D. Levitt

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

Like everyone else, rich people respond to incentives.

— Tucker Carlson

Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives

— Claude C. Hopkins

The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

— Anonymous

Find people who believe the world will be better when your company succeeds. That's an incentive that money can never buy.

— Leah Busque

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

— Carlos Ghosn

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

— William Pollard

We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.

— Jeff Bezos

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

— James Taranto

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

— William Ruckelshaus

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

— John M. Perkins

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

— Susan Wojcicki

Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We…

— Abraham Verghese

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind…

— Alexander Hamilton

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and…

— Mary Church Terrell

When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself…

— Immanuel Kant

When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the…

— Samuel Johnson

Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they…

— George Carlin

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

— James M. Buchanan

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

One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves…

— Robert Dessaix

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

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power…

— Ayn Rand

There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me…

— J. I. Packer

“Economic institutions shape economic incentives: the incentives to become educated, to save and invest, to innovate and adopt new technologies, and so…

— Daron Acemoğlu

We need to give the private sector many more powerful incentives to do research and development, to bring ideas and new discoveries…

— Chris Alexander

The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist…

— Robert Watson-Watt

Kant does not think there is anything wrong with being beneficent from sympathy. He thinks we have a duty to cultivate sympathetic…

— Allen W. Wood

Every Christian should find for himself the imperative and incentive to become holy. If you live without struggle and without hope of…

— Patriarch Philaret of Moscow

The tax incentives are things the music business can emulate. If I own Yesterday by the Beatles and I go to a…

— Chris Thomas King

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

In education, it is said that the state must impose schooling on all children, else the parents and communities will neglect it.…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

“Automakers typically offer deals in the summer to clear out inventory before cars from the new model year arrive in the fall.…

— Anonymous

Saturday morning cartoons do that now, where they develop the toy and then draw the cartoon around it, and the result is…

— Bill Watterson

So let us ask ourselves this evening, in adoring Christ who is really present in the Eucharist: do I let myself be…

— Pope Francis