Behavior Quote by Ramez Naam

When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the…

— Ramez Naam

You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

— Gavin Newsom

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

I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.

— John Liu

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

Behaviorism is sometimes criticized as encouraging unethical behavior. For example, most organizations offer rewards for increasing revenue and threat of punishment, perhaps firing if…

— Marty Nemko

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

— Edward Norton

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

Rewarding good behavior is good policy.

— Dean Phillips

“Do you want to influence the behaviour of people or organisations? You could always preach about values and visions, or you could appeal to…

— Rolf Dobelli

I think that in the end, the people are not fooled by promotion. They want to know that something works and is right.

— Emilio Pucci

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