Incentives Quotes

284 Incentives quotes by 251 unique authors

Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure… — Paul Samuelson
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 don’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
You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives. You can define… — Lou Gerstner
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
As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce,… — Thomas Ligotti
The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience. — Aaron Neville
But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas:… — Kathleen Sebelius
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives. — Jimmy Wales
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the… — Major Owens
Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers… — Austin Osman Spare
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in… — Maria Montessori
With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand… — Ben Bernanke
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose their incentive to grow… — Ivan Illich
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow… — Eric Hobsbawm
In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there wouldn't be the… — Jacque Fresco
What will drive people if they don't have money or reward? The reward is the end of war, the end of poverty, most crime, and… — Jacque Fresco
People say that the monetary system produces incentive. Â This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy,… — Jacque Fresco
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and… — Henry Hazlitt
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one... — Lawrence Block

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