Incentives Quotes

284 Incentives quotes by 251 unique authors

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of… — Dan Ariely
It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives. — Bruno Frey
It is not enough for us to know what is right and to believe it is good. We must be willing to stand up and… — Dean L. Larsen
Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the… — Vernon Jordan
So overall, though my life is far from perfect, I'm contented with it. And in a peculiar way, I'm grateful for the troubling emotions I… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Find people who believe the world will be better when your company succeeds. That's an incentive that money can never buy. — Leah Busque
There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive. — Lara St. John
If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the… — Joshua Schachter
Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they… — Emily Oster
I like playing on this team. We actually been doin' real good. Got a different mix here. Most important thing is you gotta keep pickin'… — Mickey Rivers
Go Daddy is not just a job; it's a way of life. Our employees work hard, and offering great incentives is fun and productive for… — Bob Parsons
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast,… — Arthur C. Brooks
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to. — William Weld
Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached — David Bryant
Unions are for 'collective bargaining,' not individual bargaining. It follows that most of the achievements of a union, even if they were more impressive than… — Mancur Olson
But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom incentives to evil?… — Pope Pius XII
There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the… — Elinor Ostrom
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a… — Patricia Schroeder
The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I… — Bill Gates
Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces… — W. Edwards Deming
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect. — Steven Johnson
The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still… — Hilary Rosen
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware of… — Percival Lowell
A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the challenge of getting… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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