Incentives Quotes - Page 19

• We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Jobs, College, Needs

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• The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.

  Cee Lo Green

  Facts, Becoming, Needs

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

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• We're all animals, that we all respond to the same stimuli. If you want to motivate somebody not to have premarital sex, or motivate black bears not to go diving into dumpsters, first you have to think about why they do it. Telling them to stop isn't going to help. There has to be some incentive for them to alter their behavior.

  Adam Carolla

  Sex, Thinking, Animal

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.

  Harvey Mackay

  Moving On, Morning, Giving

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• You must have the confidence to override people with more credentials than you whose cognition is impaired by incentive-caused bias or some similar psychological force that is obviously present. But there are also cases where you have to recognize that you have no wisdom to add - and that your best course is to trust some expert.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Experts, Add

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• One of the best ways to make growth personal is to give employees a share in their firm, a real incentive to go the extra mile, more of a 'John Lewis Economy' if you like...We know that firms where employees are engaged and own a stake do at least as well as other companies in the good times and have performed even better in recent bad times. Expanding and recruiting at a much faster rate and achieving better productivity...So, why do they make up just 2% of our business landscape?

  Nick Clegg

  Real, Giving, Growth

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• I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Simple, Medicine, Subsidies

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• The intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or false. The importance of the strength of our conviction is only to provide a proportionately strong incentive to find out if the hypothesis will stand up to critical evaluation.

  Peter Medawar

  Strong, True Or False, Evaluation

  Peter Brian Medawar (1981). “Advice to a young scientist”

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• It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Turns out he does run," Nick drawled. "Given an incentive. And he wouldn't be so out of breath if he hadn't kept shrieking." "That was not a shriek," Jamie said with dignity. "It was a husky masculine cry of terror.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Running, Doe, Dignity

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive.

  Joe Biden

  Government, Ideas, Vision

  "Glenn Beck: The Deindustrialization of America". "Glenn Back" with Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. October 28,2010.

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• The tax incentives are things the music business can emulate. If I own Yesterday by the Beatles and I go to a bank and try to borrow $10,000 and use that song as collateral, they wouldn't know what to do. They would run me out of the bank. Whereas if we get specialized people who know how to appraise the value of intellectual property like songs, catalogs and master recordings, they know how to put some type of value on it. They have this in Nashville and Los Angeles. New Orleans is just starting to get it.

  Chris Thomas King

  Running, Song, New Orleans

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• Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

  Neal Stephenson

  Max, Use, Common

  Neal Stephenson (2007). “Zodiac”, p.68, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Here's the deal. I get to marry you. You get to become a Garrett - although, considering what you're marrying into, I'm not certain that's much of an incentive." Dallas to Amy

  Cindy Gerard

  Amy, Dallas, Certain

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