Quotes About Incentive

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.

that without the promise of great reward we'd be content to stay home and catch up on our flossing.

Free human dialogue, wandering wherever the agility of the mind allows, lies at the heart of education. If teachers do not have the time, the incentive, or the wit to produce that; if students are too demoralized, bored, or distracted to muster the attention their teachers need of them, then THAT is the educational problem which has to be solved. . . That problem . . . is metaphysical in nature, not technical

A search engine often draws our attention to a particular snippet of text, a few words or sentences that have strong relevance to whatever we're searching for at the moment, while providing little incentive for taking in the work as a whole. We don't see the forest when we search the Web. We don't even see the trees. We see twigs and leaves.

Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

What motivates you, and why?

I think Upton Sinclair once wrote that a man has difficulty understanding something if his salary depends on his not understanding.

The whole system of fee-for-service payment is upside down. Doctors shouldn't profit from sickness. They should be rewarded for keeping people well.

Where's the incentive to be frugal with life's pleasures, to save up the pages in your favourite book for later, if you're going to be plunged into the darkened abyss at some arbitrary hour? If life is a book, then read it while you can. Don't save up any pages for later, because there might not be one.

Availing himself of the innate Apache love of fighting, he offered full army pay to warriors willing to turn against their own people (he had plenty of takers).