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• Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Should

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• A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.

  Tim Ferriss

  Real, Thinking, Goal

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• 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

  War, America, Ends

  James Risen (2014). “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Google, Want, Advertising

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• The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of low-income families have been extensively documented. The primary way that those with low incomes can advance in the market economy is to get married, stay married, and work—but welfare programs have created incentives to do the opposite.

  Michael Tanner

  Government, Opposites, Welfare Programs

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• 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

  Doe, Charging, Company

  "The Danger of Free Google Software" by Orion Jones, bigthink.com.

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• I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

  Max Baucus

  Fighting, Thinking, Bully

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• The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.

  Frederick W. Smith

  United States, Corporations, Impossible

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• From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.

  Robert Pozen

  Law, Giving, Perspective

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• You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff.

  Robert Pozen

  Law, Long, Research

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• If you take a look at Medicare, there are things we could do, not just tort reform but truly reform the whole reimbursement system which will help in terms of reducing costs and creating the right kind of incentives for savings.

  John Hoeven

  Creating, Reform, Looks

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• People who buy annuities, it turns out, live longer than people who don't, and not because the people who buy annuities are healthier to start with. The evidence suggests that an annuity's steady payout provides a little extra incentive to keep chugging along.

  Steven Levitt

  People, Littles, Evidence

  Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt (2010). “Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance”, p.77, Penguin UK

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• Although traditional incentives such as bonuses or recognition can prod people to better performance, no external motivators can get people to perform at their absolute best. . . .Wherever people gravitate within their work roles, indicates where their real pleasure lies—and that pleasure is itself motivating.

  Daniel Goleman

  Lying, Real, People

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• I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey.

  Joe Kyrillos

  Jobs, Employment, Bills

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• Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

  John S. Watson

  Energy, Demand, Ifs

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• Anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls and so on.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Competition, Cost

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• 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.

  Zachary Quinto

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

  Willa Cather

  Powerful, Hunger, Introspection

  Willa Cather (2016). “The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works”, p.134, Wildside Press LLC

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

  Ovid

  Evil, Earth, Riches

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• O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Greed, Stronger

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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

  Andy Warhol

  Funny, New York, Real

  Peter Kattenberg, Andy Warhol (2001). “Andy Warhol, Priest: "The Last Supper Comes in Small, Medium, and Large"”, p.84, BRILL

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• Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.

  Robert Motherwell

  Poor, Paint, Subjects

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• The fans motivated me. They gave me the incentive to want to play and to want to win and to continue to play as my career progressed. They were never a distraction.

  Arnold Palmer

  Winning, Play, Careers

  "An Interview with the king of golf before the 38th Arnold Palmer Invitational". Golf Content Network Interview, golfcontentnetwork.com. March 16, 2016.

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• To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Effort, Shadow, Wrecks

  What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.

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• It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.

  Frank Smith

  Children, Teaching, Tasks

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