Quotes About Incentive

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run.

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

We need to give people more of an incentive to work, to save, to invest, to create a true future for themselves.

The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has.

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

I'll do anything for free stuff.

There's a standard pay scale for stunts. The more difficult the stunt, the more money involved. But if I'm the only stuntman who can do a particular gag, there's usually a little more in it for me.

Unfortunately for the composers of the time, wealthy Renaissance merchants were more likely to commission a painting than a composition. The painting could be owned, repeatedly shown off, and later resold, unlike the music. The financial incentive to commission a composition, which can be enjoyed by any audience member, was weaker. Paintings were closer to private goods, and musical performances were closer to public goods.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

the writer Upton Sinclair once wrote: `It is difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on his not understanding it.

When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

Structuring jobs to fit personality is almost certain to lead to favoritism and conformity. And no organization can afford either. It needs equity and impersonal fairness in its personnel decisions. Or else it will either lose its good people or destroy their incentive. And it needs diversity. Or else it will lack the ability to change and the ability for dissent which (as Chapter 7 will discuss) the right decision demands.

in Japan, if you commit suicide by throwing yourself in front of a train, your family gets fined the equivalent of eighty thousand dollars for all the inconvenience you caused. Of course, if your family was the whole reason you were killing yourself, I suppose it would just be an added incentive.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

There is an incentive to be a victim. It is cool to be a victim.

I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.

I need you to come to yoga with me tomorrow and pretend to be my friend." "What? Why?" "It's bring-a-friend week, and if I do, I get twenty percent off next month's fees, so . . . you're up.

You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them.

Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

It's a basic rule of human nature that the promise of unexpected wealth short-circuits both intelligence and common sense.

There would be more incentive to success if successful men seemed to enjoy life more.

On idea of merit rating) Everyone propels himself forward or tries to, for his own good, on his own life preserver. The organization is the loser. Merit rating rewards people that do well in the system. It does not reward attempts to improve the system. Don't rock the boat.