With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole… — Virginia Wade Copy Share Image
You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ingrained short-term reward system within you. But you can become aware of what really… — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Even the strongest personality will regress and eventually may disintegrate if there is no incentive (other than threat of punishment) for the… — Joe Whitney Copy Share Image
“Not that incentives are always so easy to figure out. Different types of incentives—financial, social, moral, legal, and others—push people’s buttons in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
I just think you've created an industry now, where you create the situation where very much you've created an incentive for people… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one… — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
And so you ask a very good question. Why go on? Why even start off on such a path? What is to… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of -… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am aware of what the position is in the United States of America. If somebody gives to charity, then he gets… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
People who earn reasonable amounts are being turned into the anti-Christ. I think 45 per cent tax is a colossal amount to… — Anthea Turner Copy Share Image
When a company is charging money for a product - as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
