Quotes About Incentive

We favor putting Congress on a commission basis. Pay them for results. If they do a good job and the country prospers, they get 10% of the extra take.

Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

Is it truly being good if the only reason I behave well is so I can get more loot at Christmas? I mean, really, all I'm doing is saying I can be bribed.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

We have to look at loan forgiveness to incentivise young people to pursue degrees in areas where we know we need help.

We should tax every company's carbon footprint and the carbon footprint of every building and home, to incentivize people to reduce their carbon footprint.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

Hope is the anchor of the soul the stimulus to action and the incentive to achievement.

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

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

It's always good to motivate migration by means of some kind of bonus. For example, offer functionality in the new API that cannot be achieved in the old version.

Once every year we review market rates and issue raises automatically. Our target is to pay everyone at the company at the top 10 percent of the market regardless of their role. So whether you work in customer support or ops or programming or design, you'll be paid in the top 10 percent for that position.

You can't expect people to think and act like owners," he said, "unless they understand how what they do creates economic value. And when people are taught how they not only create economic value but that it's constantly measured and evaluated and that they stand to share in the profits, then thinking and acting like the owner becomes very easy.

S. Neill put it, promising a reward for an activity is "tantamount to declaring that the activity is not worth doing for its own sake."26 Thus, a parent who says to a child, "If you finish your math homework, you may watch an hour of TV" is teaching the child to think of math as something that isn't much fun.

Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.

When a person from a community goes and buys a car, he or she should have the incentive, financial incentive, to buy a more efficient, more environment-friendly car. This shouldn't be only left to the intention of the people. We cannot only rely on the ethics or the moral of the people.

The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.

You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.