Quotes About Incentive

most men will work harder for commendation and recognition than they will for money alone.

Avoid taking advice from someone who gives advice for a living, unless there is a penalty for their advice.

People who are bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones.

Metric-lowering drugs are particularly vicious because of a legal complexity. The doctor has the incentive to prescribe it because should the patient have a heart attack, he would be sued for negligence; but the error in the opposite direction is not penalized at all, as side effects do not appear at all as being caused by the medicine.

There is no problem if people have a conflict of interest if it is congruous with downside risk for themselves.

Greenspan's actions were harmful, but even if he knew that, it would have taken a bit of heroic courage to justify inaction in a democracy where the incentive is to always promise a better outcome than the other guy, regardless of the actual, delayed cost.

the researcher has the incentive to select the experiment that corresponds to what he was looking for, hiding the failed attempts.

as self-interest can be the driver of growth.

The incentive of a regulator is to have complex regulation. Again, the insiders are the enemies of the less-is-more rule.

3) The regulator's incentive to make complicated regulations in order to subsequently sell his "expertise" to the private sector.

Regulators, you may recall, have an incentive to make rules as complex as possible so their expertise can later be hired at a higher price.)

La esperanza bajo la sombra del miedo es el incentivo más poderoso.

My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'

You need to have something to motivate you, something to give you an edge.

What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.

Understanding history means knowing what motivates you.

There will always be people who think that money and benefits and even just having a job should be thanks enough. There are also those that think they do a great job without anyone having to thank them. But study after study has shown that no one is immune from the motivating effects of acknowledgement and thanks.

You never know what motivates you.

I think everything is a motive for money. Every thought, every belief, everything we're taught in school.

One of the reasons for paying people for their productivity, rather than their merits, is that productivity is far easier to determine than merit.

the PlayPump problem: there is a strong incentive in development to focus on projects that look good and sound good. As

Bad money drives out good.' That means poor performance will take over if good performance isn't recognized.

If the psychopath can "make" out of a situation, if there's any kind of reward on offer, they go for it, irrespective of risk or possible negative consequences.

There is a psychological theory that says human beings operate according to three natural motivations: 1. to obtain rewards and recognition 2. to avoid pain and danger 3. to get even