Quotes About Incentive

before long, the existing reward may no longer suffice. It will quickly feel less like a bonus and more like the status quo—which then forces the principal to offer larger rewards to achieve the same effect.20

This could be one reason that paying people to stop smoking often works in the short run. It replaces one (dangerous) addiction with another (more benign) one.

The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road.

The best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table.

So does that give them a get-out-of-jail-free card ("Sorry, Mom, that I squirted our new puppy's face with Windex. I guess my upstairs brain wasn't fully engaged")? Hardly. In fact, it actually gives us parents even more incentive to see that our kids develop the faculties that result in appropriate behavior.

If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?

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

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.

you get the kind of behavior you reward. You don't get what you hope for, ask for, wish for, or beg for. You get what you reward.

They want to know what's in it for them.

Behavior that is rewarded is behavior that will continue.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

3.  OFFER A REWARD

Another way to offer a reward is to start an affiliate program. You can offer your customers a 10 percent commission on the orders they bring to you.

in certain situations, people are two to three times more motivated to make a change to avoid a loss than they are to achieve a gain.2

So how do we get people to join our e-mail list? We offer them something valuable in return, something more valuable than the vague offer of a newsletter.

The man of desire needs the promise of reward to urge him to action. He is as a child working for the possession of a toy.

Reward does more than make us work more effectively together—it stimulates creativity too. Reward, not necessity, is the true mother of invention.

A second source of blurriness in Trump's vision is that it offers no incentive for friendship. If every nation is focused entirely on gaining an edge over every other, there can be no trust, no special relationships, no reward for helpfulness, and no penalty for cynicism—because cynicism is all we promise and all we expect.

The author meets an African-American who observes that his fellows who begin with aspirations to a good education, solid career, and the raising of a family slowly lose that incentive. Even those who have a college education, he observes, need to take menial jobs and begin to look for excitement in less productive places.

What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn't cost that much.

It seems that we had...not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.

It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last