Believe Quote by Stephen J. Dubner

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

“Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always…

— Levitt & Dubner

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

— George Orwell

People want people to do well. You can get focused on the bitter side of it, like, 'Everybody wants you to fail. Everybody's keeping…

— Donal Logue

We believe people are basically good. We believe everyone has something to contribute. We encourage you to treat others the way that you want…

— Pierre Omidyar

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.

— Anonymous

I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's…

— Alek Wek

The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence,…

— Arthur Melvin Okun

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

— Michael Nesmith

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to…

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

— Christian Friedrich Hebbel

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

— John Roberts