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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. -- Joe Kyrillos
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. -- Joe Kyrillos
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. -- Hosea Ballou
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. -- Herbert Hoover
Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness. -- Muhammad Yunus
And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England. -- Jill Dando
When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work. -- Fareed Zakaria
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. -- Orison Swett Marden
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it. -- Paul Watson
The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb. -- CeeLo Green
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. -- Tom Holt
The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics. -- Bill Gates
The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it. -- Eli Broad
Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate. -- Alanis Morissette
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. -- William Pollard
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. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
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. -- Simon Sinek
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America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy. -- Thomas Peterffy
Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous. -- Natan Sharansky
Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe. -- Sam Harris
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself. -- Malcolm X
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up. -- Philip Larkin
We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans. -- Elizabeth Warren
If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better. -- Peter Singer
Five centuries from now - barring unimaginable catastrophe - the moon will be developed real estate. There's economic incentive to exploit the moon - the helium-3 will be useful in powering fusion reactors, and the rare earth elements could supplant the limited terrestrial supply of these materials. -- Seth Shostak
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser? -- Matt Taibbi
So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence. -- Sebastiao Salgado
Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection. -- Willa Cather
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. -- Plato
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
The incentive to ambition is the love of power. -- William Hazlitt
The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism -- Miguel el Portugués
Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works. -- John N. Mitchell
There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive. -- Lara St. John
The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive. -- Jane Addams
Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement -- William Pollard
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome -- Charlie Munger
Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater! -- Orison Swett Marden
Even hell will give you an incentive not to reach for heaven. -- Garry Crystal
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful. -- Alain de Botton
I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set. -- Andrew Lincoln
When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel. -- Dave Van Ronk
Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies. -- Richard Branson
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas. -- W. Edwards Deming
The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero. -- Matt Taibbi
Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject. -- Robert Motherwell
The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience. -- Aaron Neville
Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed. -- Bill Maris
I'm doing the 2015 5x50 challenge because ... tâ??s the most awesome incentive for your daily motivation! -- David
When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures. -- Richard Thaler
It's the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect. -- Colson Whitehead
It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last -- Phil Harding
Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives. -- Edmund Phelps
Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone. -- David Limbaugh
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress -- Herbert Hoover
Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe. -- Alfie Kohn
Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament. -- Aspen Matis
Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety. -- George Reisman
The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens. -- Ludwig von Mises
An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation -- Steven Levitt
When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive. -- Carlos Slim
Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity. -- Johan Norberg
The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country. -- Abdallah II
The incentive for a religious person turning into an atheist is to have a better and happier life -- M.F. Moonzajer
The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country. -- Abdallah II
I wanted a divorce, so I bought myself a house, to give me the incentive to stay married. -- Jarod Kintz
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work. -- Jayne Mansfield
The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products. -- Marion Nestle
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it. -- John S. Watson
I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible. -- Maxine
We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don't is because it is detrimental to teamwork. -- Jeff Bezos
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Find people who believe the world will be better when your company succeeds. That's an incentive that money can never buy. -- Leah Busque
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit. -- Edward Norton
We need to give people more of an incentive to work, to save, to invest, to create a true future for themselves. -- Suze Orman
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison
People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing. -- Steve Jobs
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to. -- William Weld
Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived. -- Liane Moriarty
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics? -- Bryan Caplan
Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center. -- Barack Obama
Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached -- David Bryant
Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel good. -- Hal Higdon
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. -- Walter Scott
We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. -- Harvey Mackay
I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive. -- Virginia Wade
A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work. -- Eric Maskin
To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it. -- James Risen
Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive. -- Joe Biden
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it. -- Alexis Korner
The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore. -- Jai Courtney
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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. -- Stephen Colbert
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one... -- Lawrence Block
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 -- Tom Holt
Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures. -- Robert Reich
If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product. -- Joshua Schachter
When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance. -- Ian MacKaye
Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves. -- Sakyong Mipham
We seem to take notice of our body only when health is lacking. With that lack of recognition comes a lack of motivation and incentive to stretch. -- Rand Olson
The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal. -- Hilary Rosen
I think fracking for gas will reduce the incentive to turn to renewables, and I think it will do a lot of other damage across the countryside. -- Bill McKibben
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. -- Neal Stephenson
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. -- Elizabeth Berg
The fact that you can love something that's lost is all of the incentive that you'll ever need to love again as opposed to becoming comfortably numb. -- CeeLo Green
The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduces the financial incentive of stressed borrowers to remain in their homes. -- Ben Bernanke
Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His Wrath stops us from evil. -- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin. -- Margaret Deland
To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth. -- Mary Church Terrell
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. -- Frederick W. Smith
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. -- Nilakanta Sri Ram
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. -- Jeremy Stoppelman
Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself. -- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life. -- Henry Ward Beecher

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