Ends Quote by Ralph Nader

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result…

— Barney Frank

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of…

— Mo Ibrahim

“The current regulations -- for companies, doctors and researchers -- create perverse incentives; and we'll have better luck fixing those broken systems than we…

— Ben Goldacre

I think that if you have a single payer system and an opt-out for people who want to pay more [for better service, etc.],…

— Charlie Munger

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

— Anonymous

Ask yourself: Am I an investor, or am I a speculator? An investor is a person who owns business and holds it forever and…

— John C. Bogle

The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation…

— James Madison

When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how…

— T. Boone Pickens

[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses…

— Alistair Cooke

Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator…

— Benjamin Graham

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

— Helen Keller

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

— Christina Stead