Incentives Quotes
The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.
When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.
The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.
Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.
Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.
Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached
Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?
Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.
When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.
Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.
There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.
The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.
An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation
Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.
Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else
Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.
Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can.
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.
I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.
The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
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 management, and make that management take a long view.
If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.
If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.
The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.
People who earn reasonable amounts are being turned into the anti-Christ. I think 45 per cent tax is a colossal amount to take off somebody, and it is taking away the incentive to earn.
Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives to goodness.
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care
I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.
We have yet to discover the true incentive, the inner Will which will have an over-mastering effect upon our lives, and yet be present in every circumstance and incident.
