Doe Quote by Paul G. Hoffman

If you go back to Adam Smith, you find the idea that markets and market forces operate as an invisible hand. This is the…

— Michael Sandel

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing,…

— Barry Schwartz

Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years,…

— Barry Schwartz

Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built…

— Daniel H. Pink

Incentive prizes work.

— Peter Diamandis

The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear…

— Emily Oster

Reward is its own virtue.

— Carolyn Wells

Although traditional incentives such as bonuses or recognition can prod people to better performance, no external motivators can get people to perform at their…

— Daniel Goleman

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to…

— Alexander Hamilton

Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else.

— Harry Browne

“Because incentives trigger a primitive, engrained response, they produce a number of unintended consequences. First, they strongly reinforce self-aggrandizement, so much so that people…

— Carol Sanford