Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater! — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety. — George Reisman Copy Share Image
Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary. — Steven Landsburg Copy Share Image
Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity. — Johan Norberg Copy Share Image
We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack… — Patri Friedman Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as… — David Ulevitch Copy Share Image
If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people… — Joshua Schachter Copy Share Image
As a human being, we have everything we need. It's enough suffering to give us incentive to go on, but not so… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth with workers,… — Jerry Jasinowski Copy Share Image
When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes,… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Incentives were important in attracting a candidate to accept a particular job, but once on the job it hardly mattered at all.… — Frans Johansson Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, NBC and I plan to continue our relationship with several new co-ventures including a new music show, while we also explore… — Cee Lo Green Copy Share Image
I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Although traditional incentives such as bonuses or recognition can prod people to better performance, no external motivators can get people to perform… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Technology isn't simply addictive - it's addictive because it's a servant to business incentives. There are huge departments in these companies that… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“When the solution to a given problem doesn’t lay right before our eyes, it is easy to assume that no solution exists.… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
Jesus offered a single incentive to follow himto summarize his selling point: 'Follow me, and you might be happy-or you might not.… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work. — Jayne Mansfield Copy Share Image
Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive. — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives. — Robert L. Bradley, Jr Copy Share Image
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives. — David Stern Copy Share Image
You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives. — Larry Williams Copy Share Image
Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
