Incentive Quotes
210 quotes by 192 authors
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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
— John N. Mitchell
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including…
— Kevin O'Leary
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America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that…
— Thomas Peterffy
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Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that…
— William Pollard
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Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to…
— Cristiano Ronaldo
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
— Walter Scott
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Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge…
— Simon Sinek
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If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on…
— Peter Singer
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Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we…
— Eliot Spitzer
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The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair…
— Matt Taibbi
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The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.
— Matt Taibbi
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What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the…
— Linus Torvalds
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Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
— Muhammad Yunus
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But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for…
— Daniel Handler
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Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by…
— Ayn Rand
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear…
— C.S. Lewis
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Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills…
— Ludwig von Mises
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You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of…
— Ayn Rand
Who Wrote These Incentive Quotes
192 authors contributed a total of 210 Incentive Quotes, led by these top contributors: