Quotes About Incentives

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

I have a very simple rule when it comes to management: hire the best people from your competitors, pay them more than they were earning, and give them bonuses and incentives based on their performance. That's how you build a first-class operation.

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

poder blando y poder duro. Define el último como un poder que "asienta en incentivos (recompensas) y amenazas", sonde el primero se caracteriza por "lograr los resultados deseados atrayendo al otro en lugar de manipularlo o amenazarlo".

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

The prize and the punishment are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them. The

Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.

If you press people to identify the motives behind their self-interest it usually boils down to four items: money, power, status, and popularity.

La desigualdad conlleva grandes costos de eficiencia porque condiciona el acceso desigual de los agentes económicos a capacidades y oportunidades, y modela reglas del juego e incentivos que se pueden convertir en obstáculo para su participación plena»,

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

Market failure is a favourite phrase; government failure is not.

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The second factor that led to the Roman society's ability to organize collectively in the face of threat was the internal situation, to include such factors as the family, tradition, obedience, spirituality, incentives and concessions. It was a combination of these factors that helped the society overcome an unjust political and social structure and band together in the face of threat.

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

Individuals should be given every incentive possible to work as a team. If the team's throughput is increased by my helping someone else, that's what I should do. Team velocity matters; individual velocity doesn't.

In the final analysis all people—and governments alike—act in their self-interest.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.