Incentives Quotes

284 Incentives quotes by 251 unique authors

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and… — Albert Shanker
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much… — Louise Brown
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
The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather… — Joseph Rotblat
Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel good. — Hal Higdon
Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater! — Orison Swett Marden
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it. — Alexis Korner
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 incentive to buy.… — Marion Nestle
The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products. — Marion Nestle
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything… — Tom Holt
If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. ... But that's not happening here.… — Daniel H. Pink
The Republican tax cut threatens to undercut both veterans health care and the veterans educational benefits that have been recognized for decades as not only… — Lane Evans
As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted… — Dawna Markova
Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them. — Thomas Sowell
Will a guaranteed annual wage kill incentive among the poor? If a man is given a certain amount of security, won't he quit working? Exactly… — Pierre Berton
If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment. — Tom Rath
Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses,… — Frederic Bastiat
Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives — Claude C. Hopkins
The State, in organizing security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action… — William Beveridge
Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe. — Alfie Kohn
No subject was more important in the 2014 elections than healthcare, and Republicans in Congress should waste no time in taking decisive action in response… — Bobby Jindal
Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives to… — Joseph Fort Newton
I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to… — David Blunkett
We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels… — Rick Renzi
You can be totally committed to conservative principles - to individual liberty, a market economy, entrepreneurship and lower taxes - and still be a Green… — Newt Gingrich

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