Quotes About Incentive

The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

the weaponizing of the US dollar has created a powerful global incentive to create an alternative currency for global trading purposes.

every unpleasant feeling we have has an unconscious motivation.

The power in capitalism must not be mindless. Unless it is combined with knowledge, mere economic power or money is fruitless. Enterprise involves memory of the past and anticipation of the future, and it is creative. It is not a simple incentive system of rewards and punishments, of carrots and sticks. It is an information system, and it is governed less by economic theory as we know it than by information theory.

We begin with the proposition that capitalism is not chiefly an incentive system but an information system. We continue with the recognition, explained by the most powerful science of the epoch, that information is best defined as surprised-what we cannot predict rather than what we can. The key to economic growth is not acquisition of things by the pursuit of monetary rewards but the expansion of wealth through learning and discovery.

There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.

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

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

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.

If you can't see an example of what you could be, you really aren't going to have that extra incentive to break through any types of barriers.

I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

If you want the reward, you must also have the punishment; the only way to get out of the punishment is to give up the reward.

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

economic—when economic security and basic materialistic needs are guaranteed to all—then incentive will not disappear, but be of a different sort, increasing in strength and determination, producing true greatness, not the kind of transparent, transient "greatness" which present incentives produce.

There is no harder worker than a former government employee who has discovered the word incentive.

A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.

There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.

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.