Top 321 Incentives Quotes & Sayings

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

I believe in market economics. But to paraphrase Churchill - who said this about democracy and political regimes - a market economy might be the worst economic regime available, apart from the alternatives. I believe that people react to incentives, that incentives matter, and that prices reflect the way things should be allocated. But I also believe that market economies sometimes have market failures, and when these occur, there's a role for prudential - not excessive - regulation of the financial system.

I embrace a Green New Deal; I just think we have to have public-private partnerships if we're going to get there. We have to align the environmental incentives with the financial incentives.

We expect to adopt tax incentives for businesses that invest in the country.

Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.

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

All tax incentives do is make it cheaper to borrow for transportation projects. But you still have to pay that money back.

I'd rather live in a world where firms don't have these enormous incentives to spy on individuals.

The incentives are still rotten, and people are still paid to do things they shouldn't be doing. The reforms did not really address the incentives, the system is still dysfunctional and there are still behavioural issues that need to be addressed.

They [Chinese] are taking our jobs, they're giving incentives, they're doing things that, frankly, we don't do.

So many American and international producers want to shoot in the U.K. because of our crew base and tax incentives.

We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration.

The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps worth while to examine how far he is moved by these three incentives. I think that, rather peculiarly and rather exceptionally, he is very little moved by dread. ... He is in fact essentially a person who has been taught he must be fearless in his dealing with facts.

Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We should all be concerned about the plight of the poor and unfortunate. But the hard two-part question that any plan for relieving poverty must answer is: How can we mitigate the penalties of failure and misfortune without undermining the incentives to effort and success.

Like everyone else, rich people respond to incentives.

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

Incentives matter. Dreams matter. We cannot strip incentives away. Dreams are the foundation of the American dream, which is so intrinsic to who we are.

I want to keep the government out of the business of giving incentives to have or not have kids, or incentives to marry or not marry.

Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.

All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.

It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.

I believe there should be some financial incentives to make the right choice: to make them to buy the right car or not to buy a car but using public transport systems. I believe that these financial incentives are important.

Let's be clear about this, and let's be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.

It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.

Many companies believe incentives, financial incentives, are the answer to every problem or issue. But people are motivated by much more than money. In particular, people like to feel good about themselves and maintain their self-esteem. If companies spent more time working on people's feelings of self-worth, they wouldn't have to try, often unsuccessfully, to bribe people to do work.

Producers shoot movies where the tax incentives are.

The world's industry must gain incentives to stop polluting and to invest in clean technologies.

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

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

Politicians like to talk about incentives - for businesses to relocate, for example, or to get folks to buy local.

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

More climate-friendly, coordinated laws, policies, and incentives are needed.

Tax reform done right will improve incentives to invest in U.S. production and to repatriate profits.

Let's give people more incentives to get fuel efficient vehicles.

Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.

What drives 90 percent of stuff is not the small tactical decisions or the personal relationships but the big, macro political incentives.

Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.

Experts are human, and humans respond to incentives. How any given expert treats you, therefore, will depend on how that expert's incentives are set up.

I do believe in tax incentives in order to move the economy forward.

Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.

Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.

The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression.

Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.

Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

There is a sense in which, like, it could be the case that the incentives of running for president and the incentives of getting maximum attention for yourself, sometimes align, and at a certain point, they stop aligning, and you just keep going with the incentives for maximum attention for yourself.

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

What looks like resistance in many cases is rational responses to incentives and ingrained resource-allocation processes.

If you go back to Adam Smith, you find the idea that markets and market forces operate as an invisible hand. This is the traditional laissez-faire market idea. But today, when economics is increasingly defined as the science of incentive, it becomes clear that the use of incentives involves quite active intervention, either by an economist or a policy maker, in using financial inducements to motivate behavior. In fact, so much though that we now almost take for granted that incentives are central to the subject of economics.

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.