Quotes About Incentive

With that system, people who used their sick leave got more days off with pay and were rewarded over those who didn't use it. I removed this instance of what economists call a perverse incentive by giving everyone a single pool of paid leave days that accumulated based on the number of hours worked and covered paid holidays, vacations, days off, and illness.

unless people have some emotional reason to learn something, they do not learn it very well or at all.

Employees normally don't take any initiative in the private organization because it has been seen often that one who undertakes it hardly gets its result benefit ,but somebody else is given knowingly by the management all its credit, promotion and incentive.

More often than not, the sycophants easily get high incentive with promotion whereas an intelligent or truly deserving person is given merely five to ten preaching reasons by the top brass as why he could not get any salary hike & next upper position in the private sector organization.

If you give people peanuts, you get monkeys. So if you want good people that are highly qualified, make the amount of money available for them to go out and do the job.

We must give less money to these provinces, like my own province of Quebec, and give them the right incentive to develop their own natural resources and their economy.

Competition works. Ask any parent if their child will run faster from the house to the mailbox if he runs by himself or if he races to the mailbox with his sister. It's a no brainer.

Football, no one wants to ram into people. It's not human nature. You have to have a lot of incentive to ram into somebody to benefit others.

We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will.

I want to incentivize people to really have good health.

How do you motivate a human being to do things against his own nature? There's two things: love and fear. And to me, love wins every time.

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.

I didn't bother with trash-talking people's moms, wives, or girlfriends. I was like, 'Hold on, man, you mean to tell me you're making $10 million a year? That's $9 million, $999,999 too much!' That ate them up.

The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

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.

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

In a story so good that it should be apocryphal, Zappos offers graduates of their two-week paid training school $2,000 if they will quit their new jobs.

Desire for gain versus avoidance of loss.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard ' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

but from their regard to their own interest.

Let's say someone offers you a million dollars if you can immediately reduce your blood glucose to normal levels. A million dollars is pretty darn motivating, right? But can you reach this outcome immediately? Probably not. Motivation alone doesn't get you there.