Incentives Quotes

284 Incentives quotes by 251 unique authors

The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place… — Emily Oster
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit. — Edward Norton
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from… — Barney Frank
Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures. — Carlos Ghosn
The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb. — Cee Lo Green
Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private… — Martin Feldstein
The incentive to ambition is the love of power. — William Hazlitt
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. — Herbert Hoover
Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it.… — Jesse Jackson
It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the… — Henry Kravis
I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that… — Henry Kravis
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may… — Philip Larkin
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to… — Elmore Leonard
The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with… — Haniel Long
When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good… — Ian MacKaye
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. — Orison Swett Marden
Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works. — John N. Mitchell
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
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
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
If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use… — Mehmet Oz
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
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
People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem. — Mitt Romney
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy. — Mitt Romney

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