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• 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.

  Jim Stanford

  Cutting, Giving, People

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• To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

  James A. Garfield

  Powerful, Ambition, Mean

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• There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. . . . I have yet to find a person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Believe, Ambition, Giving

  "How to win friends & influence people". Book by Dale Carnegie, October 1936.

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• In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?

  Bryan Caplan

  Reality, Thinking, Giving

  Bryan Caplan (2008). “The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (New Edition)”, p.206, Princeton University Press

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• When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.

  Mary Ruwart

  Children, Parent, Use

  "Short answers to the tough questions". Book by Mary Ruwart, content.time.com. 1998.

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

  Colson Whitehead

  Failure, Perfect, Evolution

  Colson Whitehead (2012). “The Intuitionist: A Novel”, p.38, Anchor

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• Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us personally. Some children will make poor choices just as some adults do in smoking and drinking to excess; this is part of life. When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.

  Mary Ruwart

  Children, Drinking, Decision

  "Short answers to the tough questions". Book by Mary Ruwart, content.time.com. 1998.

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• Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Giving Up, Law, Use

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• There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.

  William J. Clinton

  Successful, Giving, Tears

  Clinton, William J (1998). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997”, p.1412, Best Books on

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• ... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.

  Margaret Deland

  Godly, Soul, Wicked

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• Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in the North, and others felt that freemen who were paid wages would be more efficient than slaves who had no incentive to work. For the present, however, they were stuck with the system they inherited. They felt that a complete and sudden abolition of slavery with no transition period would destroy their economy and leave many of the former slaves to starve - all of which actually happened in due course.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Abolition Of Slavery, Southern

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• You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives. You can define the marketplace realities and goals. But then you have to trust. In fact, in the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

  Lou Gerstner

  Reality, Goal, Culture

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• The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.

  John Stott

  Christian, Pain, Exercise

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.289, InterVarsity Press

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• Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Running, Lonely, Loneliness

  Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.48, Harmony

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

  George Reisman

  People, Safety, Needs

  "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics". Book by George Reisman, 1995.

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• As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce, then, should not feel unfairly culled as the worst conspirators against the human race. Every one of us is culpable in keeping the conspiracy alive, which is all right with most people.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Race, People, Mind

  "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror". Book by Thomas Ligotti, 2010.

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• Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.

  Jimmy Wales

  People, Doe, Want

  "Wikipedia and Beyond". Interview with Katherine Mangu-Ward, reason.com. June 2007.

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• Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers and no vengeance worse than the body denied.

  Austin Osman Spare

  Giving, Heaven, Genius

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

  Paul Watson

  Tragedy, Ecology, Preserves

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• The educational process should not be one of homogenizing. It should be one of encouraging excellence... when we fail to make financial aid depend upon performance, we eliminate the incentive to excellence.

  John H. Sununu

  Education, Excellence, Financial

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• We simply prefer to deny death or tragedy at all costs and, with it, a fundamental aspect of life. We do this instead of acknowledging that suffering represents one of the strongest incentives of life, which is the base of human solidarity and what brings intensity to happiness.

  Claudia Llosa

  Suffering, Tragedy, Cost

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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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• Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

  Johan Norberg

  People, Liberty, Prosperity

  Johan Norberg (2005). “In Defence of Global Capitalism”, p.71, Academic Foundation

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• The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system.

  Ilana Mercer

  Sports, Military, Government

  "The Silent Co-Conspirators In Military Mass Shootings". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. September 22, 2013.

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• In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

  Ilana Mercer

  Forever, Training, Results

  "Why Government 'Care' Will Never, Ever Work". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. October 26, 2013.

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