Quotes by Incentives Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available. Nathan Myhrvold incentives bored people 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. Neal Stephenson incentives max use Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder. Nikita Khrushchev incentives hard-work people We have yet to discover the true incentive, the inner Will which will have an over-mastering effect upon our lives, and yet be present in every circumstance and incident. Nilakanta Sri Ram incentives incidents spiritual Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. Ovid incentives earth evil Silence is golden! [Malcolm Subban] knows not to talk too much smack cause you don't want to give me that incentive right? P. K. Subban incentives silence giving We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack of elegant explanations supporting good policies, but one that suffers bad policies due to system and meta-system level incentives. Patri Friedman incentives suffering ideas Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on. Patricia Schroeder incentives practice mind If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit on their cash and not spend it. Paul Krugman incentives wages people Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure land rent is in the nature of a 'surplus' which can be taxed heavily without distorting production incentives or efficiency. A land value tax can be called 'the useful tax on measured land surplus'. Paul Samuelson incentives essentials land The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it. Paul Watson ecology incentives tragedy The intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or false. The importance of the strength of our conviction is only to provide a proportionately strong incentive to find out if the hypothesis will stand up to critical evaluation. Peter Medawar true-or-false incentives strong It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last Phil Harding incentives excellence business To the extent that we nourish ourselves on Christ and are in love with him, we feel within us the incentive to bring others to him: Indeed, we cannot keep the joy of the faith to ourselves; we must pass it on. Pope Benedict XVI incentives joy christ Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. Quintus Curtius Rufus honorable-death incentives despair End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators. Ralph Nader incentives rewards wall If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your customers or your organization - then you're going to encourage that behavior. Ramez Naam incentives organization people If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction. Ramez Naam incentives restoration natural Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring misinformation, miseducation and illiteracy. Rhymefest incentives musical artist Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies. Richard Branson incentives fighting want «12345678»
