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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures. -- Carlos Ghosn
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder. -- Nikita Khrushchev
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect. -- Steven Johnson
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. -- Jacques Delors
The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back. -- Stephanie Tubbs Jones
People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem. -- Mitt Romney
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. -- Bob Filner
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
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. -- Paul G. Hoffman
The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored. -- John Poindexter
Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs. -- Bobby Scott
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government. -- George Will
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. -- Gary Numan
The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows. -- Emily Oster
Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. -- Madeleine Albright
The incentive to ambition is the love of power. -- William Hazlitt
Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works. -- John N. Mitchell
I do believe in tax incentives in order to move the economy forward. -- Steve Southerland
When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel. -- Dave Van Ronk
I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives. -- David Stern
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas. -- W. Edwards Deming
I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives. -- Fred L. Turner
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. -- Herbert Hoover
We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere. -- William Ruckelshaus
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. -- Orison Swett Marden
I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best. -- John Liu
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
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
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
What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out. -- Linus Torvalds
Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting. -- Michael Ignatieff
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 right thing for the customers and the organization. -- Ramez Naam
Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce. -- Barry Schwartz
Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words. -- Geoffrey Canada
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take. -- Barney Frank
Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I dont think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country. -- Thomas Sowell
If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally. -- Mehmet Oz
When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives. -- Barry Schwartz
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business. -- Robert Sternberg
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives. -- Arthur C. Brooks
I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them. -- David Blunkett
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
We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past. -- Bill Gates
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. -- C. S. Lewis
For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world. -- Mohsin Hamid
What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential. -- Beth Brooke
Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives -- Claude C. Hopkins
End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators. -- Ralph Nader
Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom. -- James Taranto
Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. -- Ovid
It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives. -- Bruno Frey
Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives. -- Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy. -- Mitt Romney
What looks like resistance in many cases is rational responses to incentives and ingrained resource-allocation processes. -- Scott D. Anthony
Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity. -- John Lancaster Spalding
The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent. -- Malcolm X
The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves. -- John M. Perkins
Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen. -- Bill Gates
Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives. -- Charlie Munger
Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants. -- Andy Warhol
They [Chinese] are taking our jobs, they're giving incentives, they're doing things that, frankly, we don't do. -- Donald Trump
I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries. -- Greg Fitzsimmons
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives. -- Jimmy Wales
Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary. -- Steven Landsburg
We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration. -- Michael Pollan
Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off. -- Julian Assange
Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility. -- Dick Morris
The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. -- Henry Hazlitt
An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures. -- John F. Kennedy
The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth -- Bruno Frey
Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history. -- Ben Bernanke
In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off. -- Ilana Mercer
Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them. -- Thomas Sowell
We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere." -- William Ruckelshaus
Politicians like to talk about incentives - for businesses to relocate, for example, or to get folks to buy local. -- Tom Golisano
All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives. -- Steven Soderbergh
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. -- Tim Ferriss
Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts. -- Mitt Romney
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. -- Tim Ferriss
When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will. -- Mary Ruwart
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
Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary. -- David Suzuki
If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment. -- Tom Rath
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. -- Ilana Mercer
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. -- Joseph Fort Newton
Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome. -- Clay Shirky
... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed. -- Jack Kemp
If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician. -- G. H. Hardy
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. -- Samuel Johnson
I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it. -- Charlie Munger
Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa. -- Walter Salles
Go Daddy is not just a job; it's a way of life. Our employees work hard, and offering great incentives is fun and productive for the company. -- Bob Parsons
Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying. -- Mo Ibrahim
As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and self-serving. -- John Stossel
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. -- Michelle Goldberg
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. -- Maria Montessori
Conflicting legislation and regulations, overlapping mandates, unwillingness to enforce land use, elite capture, entrenched attitudes, and lack of incentives to influence behavior are rife in many resource-rich countries. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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. -- Kathleen Sebelius
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 -- Kathleen Sebelius
Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and incentives will never deliver sustainability. -- Tim Jackson
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. -- Ramez Naam
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. -- Hillary Clinton
The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty. -- Alexander Hamilton
Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day. -- Francis Atterbury
The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we donâ??t see how our conflicts of interest work on us. -- Dan Ariely
Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality. -- Ron Wyden
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. -- Dave Ulrich
Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the supply of armed law-abiding citizens who might resist them. -- John McGinnis
Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production. -- Paul Hawken
We need different perspectives here in Washington - someone who has private-sector experience, somebody who's actually created jobs, manufactures products, understands the incentives and disincentives, the intended and unintended consequences of legislation. -- Ron Johnson
Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following an accident, is more intense but is relatively short lived. -- Jerome F. Lederer
Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we've known them. -- Howard Rheingold
Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and our national security and reduce the consequences of global warming. -- Hillary Clinton
You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ingrained short-term reward system within you. But you can become aware of what really motivates you and then tweak your incentives to sustain your long-term pursuits. -- Scott Belsky
Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through voluntary institutions. This is one of the most important tensions in capitalism. -- Tyler Cowen
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. -- Henry Kravis

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