Quotes About Incentive

In the early 1990s, the American government, in an attempt to persuade Peruvian farmers to grow something other than coca — the immensely profitable raw material of cocaine — began to subsidize Peruvian asparagus.

Government has every incentive to ration care for the sick and lavish attention on the healthy.

Absolutism, in both religious and political realism, is a splendid incentive to heroic action, but a dangerous guide in immediate and concrete situations.

I invite trouble only when I'm paid for it.

Ralph's (and virtually all other) grocery stores provide customers with "frequent-buyer" or "Club member" cards that entitle holders (Group B) discounts not provided customers without cards (Group A), on the argument that people who tend to buy frequently (and/or buy in large quantities) have good reason to comparison shop and to obtain the frequent-buyer cards: they can prorate their search costs over a large number of purchases.11

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

This sense of entitlement contributes mightily to sloppiness, to low incentive, to boredom, to bad choices, to instant gratification, to constant demands for more, and to all kinds of addictions (including the addiction to technology).

Maybe if he did really well they'd give him some mouldy apples.

If you look closely enough, every decision has its roots in what a person wants. Scratch the surface, and you'll find a reason behind every action.

As I found, if you complete your work more efficiently, your reward is more billable work, not more leisure time. However, once you're comfortable with the facts of a case, you simply lack the incentive to resolve the case, since you'll just have to start the arduous task of learning a new case.

Incised in the stone over the Herbert C. Hoover Building's north entrance is the legend that, with Lincoln's characteristic brevity, sums up the single most powerful idea in the world: THE PATENT SYSTEM ADDED THE FUEL OF INTEREST TO THE FIRE OF GENIUS

The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to it with earnest expectation and joy.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

Never reward a solder for doing whats expected

When choosing a profession, a person will have good incentive for personal development by choosing such a profession that represents a personal challenge.

Appreciation is a better motivator than pain.

One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?

Tell me how you measure me and I'll tell you how I will behave.

My desire to work—my desire to engage with my creativity as intimately and as freely as possible—is my strongest personal incentive to fight back against pain, by any means necessary, and to fashion a life for myself that is as sane and healthy and stable as it can possibly be. But that's only because of what I have chosen to trust, which is quite simply: love.

My desire to work—my desire to engage with my creativity as intimately and as freely as possible—is my strongest personal incentive to fight back against pain, by any means necessary, and to fashion a life for myself that is as sane and healthy and stable as it can possibly be. But

My desire to work—my desire to engage with my creativity as intimately and as freely as possible—is my strongest personal incentive to fight back against pain, by any means necessary, and to fashion a life for myself that is as sane and healthy and stable as it can possibly be.

Motivation is the power behind plot.

In order for therapy to be effective, a patient must be prodded and provoked, forced into confrontations, given sufficient incentive to push herself out of the caged fog of depression.

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.