Top 441 Incentive Quotes & Sayings

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

If you want poor people to work you restore their incentive by giving them less, such as by cutting social services. If you want rich people to work you restore their incentive by giving them more, such as by cutting taxes.

I think suffering has always been an incentive for my creativity.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

I didn't get a chance to meet Glen [Beck] for this movie. I did meet him a few years ago, coincidentally, before any of this happened. But I've been familiar with his work, so I felt I wanted to get it right. I wanted to honor him. I respect him and I think the way he does his job is admirable. Yeah, there was an added incentive. I wouldn't call it pressure, but incentive perhaps.

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

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

I live in Vermont, and we don't have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don't have professional crew there.

Even on just the career level for your average officer, there's no incentive to end the wars. There's not even an incentive for these think-tank guys to end the wars. They would never admit it and say, "Oh, how could we at the Center for a New American Security not want the wars to end?" Well then, why the hell are you continuing to promote strategies that will keep us fighting for years?

There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.

Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.

For many players the opportunity to be able to play with Messi represents a huge incentive.

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation

In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

It is a mistake - as so many over-centralized socialist societies have discovered - to try to eliminate money as an incentive. Money is one incentive among many, and has its place. But to put no limits on the impulse to accumulate money obsessively is as destructive as to place no limits on the impulse to commit violence. A viable democratic society needs a ceiling and a floor with regard to the distribution of wealth and assets.

When designing algorithms as a business owner, your incentive is your profit, something for your business, it's not an incentive to maximise something for the individual.

The news is a public service. It's a way to inform people of what's going on in their world. And when you make it about ratings and make it about ad dollars, there's no incentive to inform people. The incentive is to be sensationalistic and get as many people to watch as you can without any regard for truth or objectivity.

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

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

Incentive prizes work.

But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.

Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

There's precious little incentive to try and make it in the world of management - and that's especially true in England.

If I'm scared of something there's more incentive for me to do it.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

Sometimes, obviously it's an incentive to tank if you have the opportunity to get those high draft picks.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

When a person from a community goes and buys a car, he or she should have the incentive, financial incentive, to buy a more efficient, more environment-friendly car. This shouldn't be only left to the intention of the people. We cannot only rely on the ethics or the moral of the people.

I think things that contribute to the destruction of our free-incentive system are wrong. A trend against that free-incentive system is wrong, and should only be temporarily engaged in, in the event that war or something of that kind requires it. Otherwise, it should be reduced.

The incentive for the outsider is to attack the system right up to the moment he is co-opted by it. The incentive for the insider -and this took some getting used to- is to allow yourself to be attacked, and then co-opt your most ferocious attackers, and their best ideas. The effect on the system as a whole is to make it more stable, because everyone winds up working on its behalf.

I don't have any problem with criticism. It's an incentive to refine myself.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.

When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people who earn less than average have the deficiency , or the greater part of it, turned over to them in hand-outs and doles, the production of all must sharply decline; for the energetic and able who lose their incentive to produce more than the average, and the slothful and unskilled lose their incentive to improve their condition.

I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.

Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies.

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.

It gives [a man] the incentive to develop his dormant potential so that when he becomes a part of the brotherhood of Islam, and is identified collectively in the brotherhood of Islam with the brothers in Islam, at the same time this also gives him the, it has the psychological effect of giving him the incentive as an individual to develop all of his dormant potential to its fullest extent.

Becoming a mother gives me more of an incentive to care about the future.

Praise is great, but it's also an incentive.

The investments and costs you have to put into digitalising means there will be an incentive for companies to merge.