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Quotes About Rewards

The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. He controls his soldiers by his authority, knits them together by good faith, and by rewards makes them serviceable. If faith decays, there will be disruption; if rewards are deficient, commands will not be respected.
~ Sun Tzu
L'excès de récompenses et de punitions montre que le commandement est au bout de ses ressources, et dans une grande détresse.
~ Sun Tzu
Now in order to kill the enemy, our men must be roused to anger; that there may be advantage from defeating the enemy, they must have their rewards.
~ Sun Tzu
Excessive rewards are the mark of desperation, while the excessive punishments are the mark of debility.
~ Sun Tzu
Ten, kdo ?asto vydává odmÄ›ny svým voják?m, je v tísni.
~ Sun Tzu
Because your brain is wired to experience rewards from different facets of music than my brain, it is misguided to suggest that anyone's taste in music is superior to anyone else's.
~ Susan Rogers
As Our Lady called for penance and prayers to save souls at Fatima, dressing decently can be a beautiful offering to heaven that will reap many, many rewards.
~ Julia Black
Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.
~ Julia Quinn
She hadn't expected the world to be handed to her upon a golden platter, but she'd always assumed that if she worked hard enough for something, treated everyone the way she would like to be treated, then she would be rewarded.
~ Julia Quinn
Donors do not reward good intentions.
~ Frances Hesselbein
We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
The committed student needs to be wide awake, to look and listen closely, to slow down, scrutinize and reflect. The language of poetry is so dense, so multivalent, that it demands a concentrated act of attention — and offers its greatest rewards only to those who reread.
~ Ezra Pound
Even young children know what you get when you pay peanuts. Monkeys!
~ Felix Dennis
Many of the wicked are receiving their wages now. Many Christians who may not be succeeding according to the world's standards now, will reap great rewards in heaven.
~ Billy Graham
People always like to win prizes.
~ Bob Barker
La principale différence entre le travail et les loisirs est la suivante : au boulot, au moins, l'avachissement et l'aliénation sont rémunérés.
~ Bob Black
I was given far more opportunity for growth, personal development, and financial rewards than most Americans.
~ Bob P. Buford
It will hurt if you justify your choices based on material rewards.
~ Harold J. Sala
Calpurnia was to blame for this. It kept me from driving her crazy on rainy days, I guess. She would set me a writing task by scrawling the alphabet firmly across the top of a tablet, then copying out a chapter of the Bible underneath. If I reproduced her penmanship satisfactorily, she rewarded me with an open-faced sandwich of bread and butter and sugar. In Calpurnia's teaching, there was no sentimentality: I seldom pleased her and she seldom rewarded me. "Everybody
~ Harper Lee
Process Lessons • Tight controls strangle innovation. The planning, budgeting, and reviews applied to existing businesses will squeeze the life out of an innovation effort. • Companies should expect deviations from plan: If employees are rewarded simply for doing what they committed to do, rather than acting as circumstances would suggest, their employers will stifle and drive out innovation.
~ Harvard Business School Press
People are being incentivized for the wrong things. We've heard about a lot - doctors for procedures rather than creating wellness or maintaining wellness.
~ Stephen J. Dubner
Every time you get told you get a part, it's just wonderfully soothing and incredibly fantastic and healing. You have a bad day at school, you come home and get told you've got a part in something, and it's just like, 'Yeah, it's all worth it'.
~ Charlie Rowe
'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
~ Lake Bell
Even though we live in a fast-changing world with short term-ism all around, it requires years of determination to transform a company and structurally reap the rewards. Innovation companies need to set their sights on solving unmet needs - but this approach requires focus and long-term tenacity.
~ Frans van Houten