Incentives Quotes - Page 17

• There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.

  Dave Ulrich

  Running, Research, World

  "Dave and Wendy Ulrich: An interview by Bob Morris". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.

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• Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn't particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They are rewards he voluntarily strives for.

  Paul G. Hoffman

  Work, Men, Spurs

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• Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure land rent is in the nature of a 'surplus' which can be taxed heavily without distorting production incentives or efficiency. A land value tax can be called 'the useful tax on measured land surplus'.

  Paul Samuelson

  Land, Essentials, Maximizing

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• A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty. The upper class must likewise be conciliated by vast handouts, lest it lose the "incentive" to go on generating wealth.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Class, Goes On, Charity

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports”, p.391, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it costly for employers to employ people; we subsidize people not to go to work We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

  Milton Friedman

  Long, People, Unemployment

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• The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

  Eli Broad

  Moving, Thinking, Negotiation

  Eli Broad (2012). “The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking”, p.93, John Wiley & Sons

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• I don't think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can't make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Running, Sleep, Thinking

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• Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Learning, Creativity

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.131, Penguin

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• The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Punishment, Effort

  Maria Montessori (2012). “The Montessori Method”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there's a financial incentive.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Successful, Thinking, Internet Business

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• We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Joy, Faces, Gone

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• The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mother, Father, Women

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• To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention and thereby distract the person’s mind with thoughts about the reward. This can create stress and ultimately reduce the level of performance.

  Dan Ariely

  Stress, People, Mind

  Dr. Dan Ariely (2010). “The Upside of Irrationality (Enhanced Edition): The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.

  Elmore Leonard

  Fun, Believe, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Jesse Jackson

  Government, America, Risk

  Interview With Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.

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• You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Happiness, Death

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

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

  Jayne Mansfield

  Actresses, Function

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.

  Michael Lewis

  Wall, Smart, Odds

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.266, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.

  Simon Sinek

  Opportunity, Challenges, Firsts

  "Getting the Best Leaders Takes More Than Money" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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

  Andrew Lincoln

  Film, Feels, Film Set

  "Q&A – Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

  Peter Singer

  Powerful, Dark, Government

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.256, Princeton University Press

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• In education, it is said that the state must impose schooling on all children, else the parents and communities will neglect it. Only the state can make sure that no child is left behind. The only question is the means: will we use the union and bureaucracies favored by the left, or the market incentives and vouchers favored by the right. I don't want to get into a debate about which means is better, but only to draw attention to the reality that these are both forms of planning that compromise the freedom of families to manage their own affairs.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Children, Mean, Reality

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• Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Parenting, Hazards, Moral Hazard

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• The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?

  Matt Taibbi

  Dream, Winning, Play

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• America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

  Thomas Peterffy

  America, People, Effort

  "Rich, worried and buying ad time". politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. October 10, 2012.

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