Incentives Quotes

I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.

The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.

I think we have to take a look at corporate law. We have to take a look at the incentives that we can perhaps use to encourage more longer term.

In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system.

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there's a financial incentive.

Even the poor can be fat in the U.S. That says something about a country. That's how incredible what we have is. But it can also take away incentive.

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.

I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey.

An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.

The federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.

Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.

Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

It's a tremendous way of getting people to buy more at lower cost to the producer. There's no question that that's an incentive to buy. Everybody loves a bargain.

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration.

I think [Donald Trump's] incentives are not aligned with the Republican Party. I mean, they are part of the time, but they're not all of the time.

Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn't particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They are rewards he voluntarily strives for.

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.

If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your customers or your organization - then you're going to encourage that behavior.

Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies.

Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

What looks like resistance in many cases is rational responses to incentives and ingrained resource-allocation processes.

Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.

Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary.

All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.

If you're born in the higher realms, then it's too pleasant, and you don't have any incentive to practice. If you're born in the lower realms, you don't have any opportunity to practice.

Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value.

Every Daydream-hope starts with little incentives !