Incentives Quotes · Page 4

All tax incentives do is make it cheaper to borrow for transportation projects. But you still have to pay that money back.

— Dan Lipinski

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

— Lara St. John

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

— Donald Trump

Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

— John S. Watson

Not getting enough retribution or decent incentives to keep me at it.

— Shakira

Silence is golden! [Malcolm Subban] knows not to talk too much smack cause you don't want to give me that incentive right?

— P. K. Subban

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

— Dave Van Ronk

Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.

— John Lancaster Spalding

I want to keep the government out of the business of giving incentives to have or not have kids, or incentives to…

— Charles Murray

The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the…

— Henry Hazlitt

We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives — a love of science, engineering, and math,…

— Ezra Taft Benson

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

Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most…

— Jerome F. Lederer

Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon…

— David Harsanyi

So overall, though my life is far from perfect, I'm contented with it. And in a peculiar way, I'm grateful for the…

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive…

— Patricia Schroeder

There is a sense in which, like, it could be the case that the incentives of running for president and the incentives…

— Chris Hayes

Every company that manufactures something is causing some damage either to the soil or water or air. Most companies treat these as…

— Philip Kotler

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

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons…

— Suzy Kassem

The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We…

— Milton Friedman

Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it…

— George Bernard Shaw

Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a…

— Greg Brown

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

— Rick Perry

Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it:…

— Frederic Bastiat

“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one…

— Suzy Kassem

“I don’t think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good…

— Mark Vonnegut

Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your…

— Ken Schoolland

Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx…

— Mark Skousen

We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial…

— Robert K. Merton

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

— Thomas Sowell

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.

— Jimmy Wales

Let's give people more incentives to get fuel efficient vehicles.

— Mitt Romney

The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

— Phil Harding

The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

— Aaron Neville

Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

— Julian Assange

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

— Fred L. Turner

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

— Marion Nestle