Incentives Quotes · Page 5

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

— James Taranto

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

— Jeff Bezos

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

— William Pollard

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

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

Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this…

— Tim Jackson

When it comes to trying to manage how our entire planet-wide market and all the people and businesses in it deal with…

— Ramez Naam

The problem with voting is that because your individual vote makes very little difference, you're voting with a mass of others, you…

— Jason Brennan

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive…

— Lawrence Block

I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of…

— Bill McKibben

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

— Henry Hazlitt

Go Daddy is not just a job; it's a way of life. Our employees work hard, and offering great incentives is fun…

— Bob Parsons

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive…

— Nathan Deal

“The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and…

— Mohammed Ali Muhiyaddin

Many people don't realize that financial incentives have been built into the drug war that guarantee that law enforcement will continue to…

— Michelle Alexander

We simply prefer to deny death or tragedy at all costs and, with it, a fundamental aspect of life. We do this…

— Claudia Llosa

Over a period of time, they [undocumented workers] can have a legalized status that allows them to live a life of dignity…

— Jeb Bush

I think Donald Trump is going to try as best he can to make sure that he delivers not only to the…

— Barack Obama

Repealing drug laws would remove the risks involved with producing and distributing drugs, bringing 'street prices' crashing down (it's estimated that a…

— L. Neil Smith

If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. ... But that's…

— Daniel H. Pink

Many companies believe incentives, financial incentives, are the answer to every problem or issue. But people are motivated by much more than…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very…

— Mitt Romney

Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no…

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Pope Francis

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

— John Lancaster Spalding

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

— Dave Van Ronk

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

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

— Shakira

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

— John S. Watson

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

— Donald Trump

It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.

— Bruno Frey

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

The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

— Ludwig von Mises

We need to give people more of an incentive to work, to save, to invest, to create a true future for themselves.

— Suze Orman

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

— Mahatma Gandhi

An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation

— Anonymous