Quotes About Incentive

A mule doesn't like to plow. But he likes carrots. So you hang a carrot in front of his eyes. A mule without a carrot gets exhausted. A mule with a carrot spends a long time being tired.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

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

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works.

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

If you take the money away, a lot of the footballers would still be playing football. So, the money has nothing to do with it.

If you're 70th or 80th on the money list, it's not very motivating.

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.

It seems only easier when money is involved.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than that minimum for himself and his family.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

If the organization grows in size, higher-ups' importance will almost invariably be measured by the total number of employees working under them, which, in turn, creates an even more powerful incentive for those on top of the organizational ladder to either hire employees and only then decide what they are going to do with them or—even more often, perhaps—to resist any efforts to eliminate jobs that are found to be redundant.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

Avarice, the spur of industry.