Quotes About Incentive

Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of "mansions" as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world?

You have to reward them when they do what you want. I tried punishing them when they misbehaved, but the hammer seemed to crush their spirit.

You must confess yourself. It is the way to love the truth. Tell me who sent you, and I will let you sit in the Eel Bath." "Let me?" This was less incentive than he thought. "And I will let you lick clean the soles of True Believers in the time beyond the Year of Carnage!

I have had opportunity to observe the effects of inherited wealth, and for the average young person it is a sentence to futility and boredom. It cuts the mainspring of activity; the person no longer has to do anything, and so he doesn't, and if he tries, he fails nine times out of ten. You at this moment are providing the strongest incentive to labor that I have ever had in my life.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

To give her some incentive, he took her hands away from her face and kissed her.  It was a soft, chaste kiss, but it wasn't short and it wasn't brotherly.

Communication. Communication is an often-overlooked aspect of incentive plan implementation and can be one of the most critical aspects of ensuring plan effectiveness.

We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

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Recognition is the greatest motivator.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in man.

you can't have an effective bonus program if you don't have a forecasting system that's taking people forward to where they want

The right people will do the right things and deliver the best results they're capable of, regardless of the incentive system.

The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.

I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but the opposite is true. Unemployment Insurance serves as a powerful incentive for people to keep searching for jobs, rather than drop out of the labor force altogether.

They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

The New Labour doctrine that skills training was the responsibility of employers was flawed. The idea that employers should take on a bigger role ignores the reality that employers have no incentive to train staff to leave. We can hardly expect Tesco to train checkout staff to become dental nurses.

If you had a basic income, it would mean that everybody would have a base on top of which their earned income would be taxed at the standard rate of tax. That would increase the incentive to take low-wage jobs.

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.