Quotes by Incentives We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all. Franklin D. Roosevelt incentivesacceptancepast 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. Gary Numan incentivesstruggledream We have to do a much better job at keeping our jobs. And we have to do a much better job at giving companies incentives to build new companies or to expand, because they're not doing it. Donald Trump incentivesjobsgiving Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money. George Carlin incentivespoliticalgiving Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles. George Bernard Shaw incentivesmonthsprinciples Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive. Greg Brown incentivesambitionteamwork The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. Ha-Joon Chang incentivesmiracleclever The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure. Haniel Long incentivesdesertmay Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. Henry Hazlitt incentivesincomegovernment 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. Henry Kravis incentivesviewslong 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. Henry Kravis incentivesbuyingmanagement The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world has discovered, is through the system known as capitalism - the system of private property, free markets, and free enterprise. Henry Hazlitt incentiveswayworld The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the restoration of incentives, to let loose the tremendous constructive energies of 300 million Americans. Henry Hazlitt incentiveslibertylaw The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal. Hilary Rosen incentivesartistgoal In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off. Ilana Mercer incentivestrainingforever I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan. Jacques Delors incentivesprovisionpeople When a company is charging money for a product - as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync - you understand its incentive for sticking with that product. James Fallows chargingincentivesdoe Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else. James M. Buchanan incentivespoliticiandifferent To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it. James Risen incentiveswaramerica Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom. James Taranto incentivesdecisionwise«12345678»
