Incentive Quotes

210 quotes by 195 authors

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. — Plato
Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His Wrath stops us… — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
It's just economics 101: When it's free to pollute, you get more pollution. But when there's a price to pay, industry will have an incentive… — Fred Krupp
If you want poor people to work you restore their incentive by giving them less, such as by cutting social services. If you want rich… — Jim Stanford
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the… — Robert Sternberg
I think in the end we will have negotiations with the House. They don't have any incentive for a long, drawn-out trial. We'll have negotiations… — Phil Gramm
To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may… — James A. Garfield
There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a… — Charles R. Schwab
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics? — Bryan Caplan
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect. — Colson Whitehead
Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It… — Lawrence Lessig
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive… — Nathan Deal
We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we donâ€™t is because it is detrimental to teamwork. — Jeff Bezos
Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in… — G. Edward Griffin
The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it costly… — Milton Friedman
Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his… — Carlos Slim
The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly… — John Stott
Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to… — Sakyong Mipham
Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety. — George Reisman

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