Incentives Quotes - Page 2

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.

With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.

I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.

The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it.

If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.

The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.

The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.