Incentives Quotes · Page 3

You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

— Gavin Newsom

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

— David Stern

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

— Thomas Sowell

It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.

— Larry Williams

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

— Nikita Khrushchev

Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

— Robert L. Bradley, Jr

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

— Carlos Slim

It's a tremendous way of getting people to buy more at lower cost to the producer. There's no question that that's an…

— Marion Nestle

You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an…

— Robert Pozen

Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn…

— Simon Sinek

Here's the deal. I get to marry you. You get to become a Garrett - although, considering what you're marrying into, I'm…

— Cindy Gerard

If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole…

— Stephen Colbert

I am aware of what the position is in the United States of America. If somebody gives to charity, then he gets…

— Nelson Mandela

When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for…

— Ramez Naam

If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of…

— Gavin Newsom

Love is the sole impulse for creation; and the man who does not have it as the greatest incentive in his life…

— Ernest Holmes

Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on…

— Dag Hammarskjold

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you…

— Percival Lowell

We're all animals, that we all respond to the same stimuli. If you want to motivate somebody not to have premarital sex,…

— Adam Carolla

I didn't get a chance to meet Glen [Beck] for this movie. I did meet him a few years ago, coincidentally, before…

— Zachary Quinto

Although a government study found that men's health was much worse than women's health or the health of any minority group, headlines…

— Warren Farrell

The State, in organizing security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement…

— William Beveridge

Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as…

— Ken Robinson

“When I applied to graduate school many years ago, I wrote an essay expressing my puzzlement at how a country that could…

— Charles Wheelan

I mean, these are kids that are getting on rail cars, riding the top of rail cars all the way up through…

— Rick Perry

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

— Bill Watterson

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

— Anonymous

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

— Llewellyn Rockwell

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

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

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

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

— Alfie Kohn

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

— Colson Whitehead

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.

— Jayne Mansfield

Tax reform done right will improve incentives to invest in U.S. production and to repatriate profits.

— David Autor

I'm doing the 2015 5x50 challenge because ... t’s the most awesome incentive for your daily motivation!

— David

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

— Alain de Botton

The world's industry must gain incentives to stop polluting and to invest in clean technologies.

— Tulsi Tanti

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.

— W. Edwards Deming