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Quotes About Rewards

When people are given challenging responsibilities, autonomy to control their outputs, participation in decision making, and visible and valuable recognition, it meets virtually all of the criteria for effective rewards.
~ Dave Ulrich
Rewards and penalties are totally random; knaves thrive and saints go hungry.
~ James B. Stockdale
It is important and vital to not use more than 5% of any given time on rewarding yourself, rewards are good for your psyche but too much leads you in the regret and remorse trap
~ James D Wilson
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
~ James S. Coleman
And Hislop?' said Lymond softly. 'Don't sound so aggrieved. There are no rewards, celestial or mundane, for the best display of pure, bloody inquisitiveness.' Which drove Ludovic d'Harcourt to a deduction, five minutes later, as Daniel Hislop marched into his room. 'Let me make a guess. He is awake.' 'He's awake. The honeymoon,' said Danny, 'is over.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The greatest benefits will not bind the ungrateful.
~ Aesop
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
~ Alan Hansen
That I am today the face of Louis Vuitton almost seems like a twist of fate. You dream back to front, wanting the rewards before putting the work in. And then you work, get on with life, and just sometimes these childhood dreams have a way of catching up with you. This is a true privilege for which I am eternally grateful.
~ Xavier Dolan
The object of rewards is to encourage; that of punishments, to prevent. If rewards are high, then what the ruler wants will be quickly effected; if punishments are heavy, what he does not want will be swiftly prevented.
~ Han Fei
You will get when you deserve, not when you desire! So Accept Life and Live in the NOW!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Today's habits, rituals, and routines are tomorrow's destiny, and minor adjustments bring major rewards.
~ Randall Bell
El trabajo duro es como el interés compuesto de los bancos. La recompensa se acumula más rápido.
~ Randy Pausch
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
~ Ray Dalio
I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
~ Harold Ford, Jr.
It's amazing how much this industry has taught me. It's been one of the hardest yet most rewarding things I chose.
~ Sameera Reddy
There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.
~ Richard Ford
Broadway is not about surprises. It's about rewarding the putrid, formulaic crap that makes Broadway Broadway.
~ Hilton Als
The most astonishing thing about Jimmy's rise was not his age, for the Mockers were of the opinion that as soon as a boy was ready to try thieving, he should be turned loose. Failure had its own rewards. A poor thief was quickly a dead thief. As long as another Mocker was not put at risk, there was little loss in the death of a thief of limited talents. No, the most astonishing fact of Jimmy's rapid rise was that he was nearly as good as he thought he was.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Semco adds yet another dimension. You receive a voucher for work after your retirement. So if you took off a hundred Wednesday afternoons, you are now entitled to redeem the vouchers after your retirement by showing up with them and saying, "I'd now like to redeem my vouchers to work one Wednesday a week for two years and receive proportional pay." You've effectively exchanged early retirement for later work.
~ Ricardo Semler
Holding ideas in our mind, that brings events to us, tests, rewards.
~ Richard Bach
Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.
~ Bruce Barton
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
~ Seneca the Younger
I can tell you there are rewards that go far beyond money and public acclaim and awards.
~ Michael Jackson
Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.
~ Edna Buchanan