Incentives Quotes - Page 6

• The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

  Bill Gates

  Zero, Missing, Energy

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• What's awesome about social media is you curate your own experience. That leads to the rise of niche celebrities, who are actually just as popular as mass celebrities, but because there's no incentive for traditional media to invest in them as celebrities, they find a home where people can follow them on Instagram.

  Kevin Systrom

  Home, Media, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think we have to take a look at corporate law. We have to take a look at the incentives that we can perhaps use to encourage more longer term.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Law, Looks

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Technology isn't simply addictive - it's addictive because it's a servant to business incentives. There are huge departments in these companies that are devoted to this and staffed by incredibly talented people who have skills that could be put to socially beneficial projects but who are now trying to find out how to make you click and how to maximize your time on a certain site, or encourage teenagers to "friend" more products and constantly engage with them.

  Astra Taylor

  Teenager, Technology, Skills

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Michael Lewis

  Issues, People, Reform

  "The Big Short: author Michael Lewis on 'betting on Armageddon' during the global financial crisis; making of star-studded new film". Interview with Hayden Cooper, www.abc.net.au. January 14, 2016.

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• It's a tremendous way of getting people to buy more at lower cost to the producer. There's no question that that's an incentive to buy. Everybody loves a bargain.

  Marion Nestle

  People, Cost, Way

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• The people have an incentive to spend wisely. So the health care savings accounts are such a good thing. It's such a good idea. And it's time for it.

  Donald Trump

  Ideas, People, Saving

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I am not somebody who just says let's beat up on the bad guys. No. I want to summon the good guys and give people the incentives and opportunities to actually grow this economy, put more people to work, get the middle class really feeling like they're back in business.

  Hillary Clinton

  Opportunity, Class, Giving

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Every Christian should find for himself the imperative and incentive to become holy. If you live without struggle and without hope of becoming holy, then you are Christians only in name and not in essence. But without holiness, no one shall see the Lord, that is to say they will not attain eternal blessedness. It is a trustworthy saying that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners (I Tim. 1:15). But we deceive ourselves if we think that we are saved while remaining sinners. Christ saves those sinners by giving them the means to become saints.

  Patriarch Philaret of Moscow

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Giving, Chinese

  Source: time.com

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• Movies you pay for - well, sometimes they throw some ads at the beginning now - but generally you pay for ads. And that business model - actually, much more ancient, paying for stuff - is much more straightforward in terms of the incentives of the people who are then giving you the stuff.

  Tim Wu

  Giving, People, Pay

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm doing the 2015 5x50 challenge because ... t’s the most awesome incentive for your daily motivation!

  David

  Motivation, Challenges, Most Awesome

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• Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Accomplishment, Trying

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• The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than by compulsion; if in the process we learn to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Beautiful, Kindness, War

  Joseph Rotblat, Ikeda Daisaku (2006). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.121, I.B.Tauris

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

  Carlos Slim

  Faces, Problem, Silent

  "Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim's 10 Most Notable Quotes And Top 10 Business Principles" by Dolia Estevez, www.forbes.com. April 29, 2014.

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• 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

  World, Way, Modern

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.95, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel good.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, People, Feel Good

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• When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit an injustice... If this occurs repeatedly, all incentives to cultural enterprise are destroyed and they cease utterly to make an effort. This leads to destruction and ruin of civilization.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Wisdom, Rights, Civilization

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• 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.

  Arthur Melvin Okun

  Loyalty, Wisdom, Strong

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• Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Would Be, Looks

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• When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.

  Samuel Johnson

  Self, Emulation, Merit

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• Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

  Louis L'Amour

  Adversity, Enemy, Spite

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.173, Bantam

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• The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.

  John Ensign

  Jobs, People, Unemployment

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• If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.

  Immanuel Kant

  Character, Science, Men

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• Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

  Margaret Fuller

  Friends, Stars, Heart

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