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Quotes About Rewards

Only when government begins to hand out rewards on the basis of political pressure do we find ourselves involved in group conflict, pushed to organize and contend with other groups for a piece of political power.
~ David Boaz
When you ask leaders to do more, and they deliver over both the short and long term, leading to wins for shareholders and customers, then those leaders deserve higher than average compensation.
~ David Cote
On the other hand, there are those who feel that fiction can be challenging, generally and thematically, and even on a sentence-by-sentence basis—that it's okay if a person needs to work a bit while reading, for the rewards can be that much greater when one's mind has been exercised and thus (presumably) expanded.
~ David Foster Wallace
Gentlemen," I said to my officers, "let's talk about discipline within our army, and let's consider our danger from no-account leaders. Unfortunately, such rogues sometimes find more followers than good leaders. Promising everyone a good time with plenty of instant rewards, these scoundrels can exert much more influence than virtuous men, who end up alone on steep, rocky paths.
~ Xenophon
Let me teach you a new way of seeing yourselves in the great scheme of things. We should no longer feel inferior to the men who went before us. Their lives were one long struggle to perform the same deeds that we hold in honor now. Yet, for all their worth, they made few gains for the nation or for themselves. In fact, their enemies seemed to prosper as much as they did. Our forefathers may have displayed wonderful courage, but they failed to reap great rewards." Placing
~ Xenophon
The pages of history are red with the blood of illuminated "saints" who were murdered by their religions for actually achieving the advertised spiritual rewards.
~ Unknown
Put bluntly, the Nazis succeeded in genocide in part through offering bystanders money, property, status, and other rewards for their active or tacit complicity in the crime.
~ Christopher Simpson
learned to imitate. The much-maligned techniques of behavior modification — rewards and more rarely penalties — eventually provided her adequate motivation. Characteristically, the reinforcers were not food or praise but numbers, a rising tally on a golf counter. Every new skill made life easier for us and richer for her, as her repertoire of activities expanded.
~ Unknown
we have built a reward structure to praise those students who can sit in classrooms better than anyone else. We let them run our planet. However,
~ Unknown
For a modern state there are cheaper and less risky means of coercion, sometimes known as economic statecraft or geoeconomics. China has become the world's master practitioner. Geoeconomics can be defined as the deployment of economic punishments and rewards to coerce nations to adopt preferred policies.
~ Clive Hamilton
Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
~ Gary Hamel
The rewards of my life have been great. I built a company; I left things better than I found them. I have a good reputation. I put the Vanguard shareholders and crew first. That's a huge thing.
~ John C. Bogle
Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
When you serve people, God will send people to bless you
~ Sunday Adelaja
Phronesis is a beautiful virtue, practise it and you shall reap the rewards…
~ Unknown
As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep.
~ Robert Gottlieb
Students today need experience to get a job, and they need a job to get experience. The Chegg Champion program provides students with a real-world working experience that actually offers financial rewards.
~ Osman Rashid
Obviously, college stars deserve substantial compensation, right?
~ Skip Bayless
You really will reap what you sew.
~ Tyler Perry
In business -- every business -- the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process.
~ Donald Trump
Today it was commerce that Europe valued and it was the businessmen who, having exploited what the scientists and thechnologits had done for the world, now reaped the rewards.
~ Unknown
When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
~ Rafe Spall
Far more often, the unexpected success is simply not seen at all. Nobody pays any attention to it. Hence, nobody exploits it, with the inevitable result that the competitor runs with it and reaps the rewards.
~ Peter F. Drucker