Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for… — George Will 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
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
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
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
Banks have come to realize in the recent crisis that they are paying the price for having designed compensation packages which provide… — Mervyn King Copy Share Image
The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Movies you pay for - well, sometimes they throw some ads at the beginning now - but generally you pay for ads.… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
We're working on making sure that our incentives are in place and that our legislation promotes crypto and blockchain and is forward-thinking.… — Francis X. Suarez Copy Share Image
When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
I think things that contribute to the destruction of our free-incentive system are wrong. A trend against that free-incentive system is wrong,… — George M. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The industrial real estate market completed one of its strongest demand cycles in history as several factors ignited the fire. For projects… — Brian Gordon Copy Share Image
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics… — George Will Copy Share Image
If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You cant win many elections… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to… — Beth Brooke Copy Share Image
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out… — Albert Shanker Copy Share Image
We need different perspectives here in Washington - someone who has private-sector experience, somebody who's actually created jobs, manufactures products, understands the… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
No subject was more important in the 2014 elections than healthcare, and Republicans in Congress should waste no time in taking decisive… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
The news is a public service. It's a way to inform people of what's going on in their world. And when you… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness… — John Stott 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
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
The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the… — Michael Tanner 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
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
We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives - a love of science, engineering, and math,… — Ezra Taft Benson 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
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
We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until… — Aiden Wilson Tozer 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
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
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
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
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
It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image