The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Tokens align incentives between developers, contributors, users, and investors. They allow everyone who wants to contribute to a project early the opportunity… — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection… — J. B. Jackson Copy Share Image
We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The left's inability to understand the most basic economic fact - that people need an incentive to produce - has caused the… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What I want is natural gas to be a bridge to a cleaner energy future, not a dam against a cleaner energy… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
What will drive people if they don't have money or reward? The reward is the end of war, the end of poverty,… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I think that if you have a single payer system and an opt-out for people who want to pay more [for better… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
History is so full of high-level intelligence officials who actually worked for the other side that one is forced to conclude that… — Angelo Codevilla Copy Share Image
If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility. — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
“The current regulations -- for companies, doctors and researchers -- create perverse incentives; and we'll have better luck fixing those broken systems… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
When a state offers your company an attractive package of incentives to relocate, you have to look at it, and if it… — William M. Daley Copy Share Image
People have got to get used to making low carbon choices. If they have a direct incentive to do so they will… — Tim Yeo Copy Share Image
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Even the poor can be fat in the U.S. That says something about a country. That's how incredible what we have is.… — Jim Courier Copy Share Image
The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit… — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Refugees cost us money too when they come to us. If we improve their living conditions in Turkey, we create an incentive… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image