Quotes About Incentive

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

people seem to be more motivated by the thought of losing something than by the thought of gaining something of equal value.

The state has only a limited incentive to guarantee the value of money. The reason is that it can always produce the money necessary to defray its expenses, either by debasing the coinage when money is metal or by printing more of it when it is paper.

Whenever you find yourself avoiding something you know you should be doing, then the only thing to ask yourself is, "What's in it for me?" Be a little greedy. It's the best cure for laziness.

Taxes punish those who produce and reward those who don't produce.

So whenever you find yourself avoiding something you know you should be doing, then the only thing to ask yourself is, "What's in it for me?" Be a little greedy. It's the best cure for laziness.

So whenever you find yourself avoiding something you know you should be doing, then the only thing to ask yourself is, "What's in it for me?" Be a little greedy. It's the best cure for laziness. Too

Taxes punish those who produce and reward those who don't produce.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

The Work Opportunity Tax Credit

We've been paying for 100 percent of preventive care. But if you're not getting annual physicals, then you're not going to gain a financial incentive, so effectively your insurance premium with us will go up.

Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

Would offering the Mars Prize damage NASA? I don't think so.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn't use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.

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. The dog did something you wanted, you reinforced the behavior with a reward—pet'm, tell'm they're a good dog, let'm play with a toy.

Then a few started getting scholarships. Money talks, friend. The complainers got quieter than a nun in the confessional." "He

A principle is suggested: When any action is regulated by law, the incentive for individual conscience to govern is diminished—unless the law coincides with almost universally held moral standards.