Quotes About Incentive

There are 6 reasons anyone does anything: Love, Faith, Greed, boredom, Fear, or... Revenge.

Why would Russia care about chemical weapons in Syria? They have no incentive to care.

From now on, any flick I'm ever involved with, I conduct critics screenings thusly: 'You wanna see it early to review it? Fine: pay like you would if you saw it next week.'

When I was a child my mother used to pay me half a crown - 12.5 pence - to wash her car each week.

My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some, like, pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know that I would have been so motivated.

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run. Who are you competing against? It's you. You need to be doing this for you and only you.

Revenge is a powerful motivator.

If you need a tax credit to compete, you are probably not that competitive.

I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.

What the Ten Million Solar Roofs Act does is provide consumer rebates for the purchase and installation of solar systems.

Sometimes, obviously it's an incentive to tank if you have the opportunity to get those high draft picks.

if you set children to an activity that they enjoy and reward them for doing it, the reward reduces the enjoyment and demotivates them. Within a few seconds you transform play into work.

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

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

The best dog training was based on the reward system. You did not punish a dog for doing wrong, you rewarded the dog for doing right.

So if you combined this thing with carbon taxes, you would get taxed if you burn carbon, but paid if you sequester carbon.

the fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done

Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.

What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

It is not unreasonable to want repentance from a wrongdoer before forgiving that wrongdoer, since, in the absence of repentance, hasty forgiveness may harm both the forgiver and the wrongdoer. The forgiver may be harmed by a failure to show self-respect. The wrongdoer may be harmed by being deprived of an important incentive - the desire to be forgiven - that could move him toward repentance and moral rebirth.

If you're going to make more money, you need to get in touch with the emotions surrounding your incentive for making it, because emotions are what drive you to action.