Quotes About Incentive

the leading men would receive no salary but would profit solely from the appreciation of their shares and rising dividends—which Rockefeller thought a more potent stimulus to work.

Neither can one who wills the Good do so out of fear of punishment. In essence, this is the same thing as willing the Good for the sake of a reward.

Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.

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.

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

Then why not indulge yourself at once? Sleep, by all means, if such be your means of procuring the concord of celestial sounds. Pray do not hesitate; you will find every incentive to slumber, and for what else but to send people asleep was the opera invented?

Although, by todays standards, he set a vast amount of work, he believed as he told Mrs Ashley, that 'If you pour much drink into a goblet, the most part will dash out and run over'. In Ascham's view, it was the carrot, and not the stick, that worked.

drive to win and the desire to make a profit are given by God to provide the incentive required for conquering exceptional challenges.

Cass had been determined to lose weight and had undergone a gruelling five months during which she had fasted four days a week. John's continuing jibes made sure Cass had no shortage of incentive. 'You should have got your own record label Cass,' was one of John's favourites. 'Fat Records. Then the record label's ads could read "Another obese release from Fat.

"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."

I want to do more and more; it provides me with an incentive.

But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.

Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.

I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology.

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

We need a tax code that propels businesses to success rather than punishing them for their success.

The federal government should not be in the business of initiating and administering short-term incentive programs designed to shape consumer purchase behavior.

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

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?

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

Make it compulsory that at least four weeks in a year the theaters have to screen local films and let them choose the time. That's how you have to encourage the industry.

Good deeds are only done when there's a profit margin.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

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