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• Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

  Nathan Deal

  Technology, Doe, May

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• Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, New Job, Massachusetts

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• Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I dont think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, Thinking, Technology

  "Curbing Nuclear Proliferation: An Interview with Mohamed ElBaradei". Interview with Miles Pomper and Paul Kerr, www.armscontrol.org. October 21, 2003.

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• The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Attitude, Long

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• Saddam Hussein has invited members from the U.S. Congress to visit Iraq. Man how stupid is Hussein? If you think Bush had incentive to bomb Iraq before, imagine if Congress was over there.

  Jay Leno

  Stupid, Men, Thinking

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• One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Philosophy, Men, Ideas

  "Whitewashing Black History Month" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2012.

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• I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Errors, Skills, People

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.25, Random House

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• Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Despair, Honorable Death, Honorable

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IX, 5, 6,

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• Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.

  George Carlin

  Giving, Political, Too Much

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• Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.

  Greg Brown

  Teamwork, Ambition, Matter

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• We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.

  Jeff Bezos

  Teamwork, Kind, Reason

  "Working At Amazon: No Free Food, And A Low Salary" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. November 16, 2012.

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• I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My ancestors once owned slaves, and it is in my lineage to work closely with the black community. However, just because they were freed over a century ago doesn’t mean they can now be freeloaders. They need to be told to work hard, and the incentives just aren’t there for them anymore. When I’m president I plan to work closely with the black community to bring a sense of pride and work ethic back into view for them.

  Mitt Romney

  Hard Work, Mean, Pride

  "Mitt Romney: I Can Relate To Black People, My Ancestors Once Owned Slaves" by S.Wood, www.freewoodpost.com.

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• Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Curiosity, Strongest, Humans

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins, John E. Kennedy, Albert D. Lasker “Scientific Advertising Origins”, Lulu.com

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• All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Levels, Break, Interaction

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There are 60 million generators in Nigeria. The generator owners and distributors have a strong incentive to not encourage the distribution of solar and other alternative energies, even though it's better for the country, it's better for people. As a world, we've got to get more serious about confronting those obstacles. This knows no culture, no race, no ethnicity.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Country, Strong, Race

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• You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ingrained short-term reward system within you. But you can become aware of what really motivates you and then tweak your incentives to sustain your long-term pursuits.

  Scott Belsky

  Long, Rewards, Pursuit

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• The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

  Dan Ariely

  Motivation, Inspiration, Sometimes

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• If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your customers or your organization - then you're going to encourage that behavior.

  Ramez Naam

  Organization, People, Rewards

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Skills, People, Matching

  Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. June 23, 2010.

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• We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

  Bill Gates

  Stars, Creativity, Past

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• End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

  Ralph Nader

  Wall, Rewards, Ends

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• We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, Needs, Carbon

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• Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production.

  Paul Hawken

  Moving, Intelligent, Self

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• Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

  Barney Frank

  Country, Decision, Receiving

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• The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.

  John Poindexter

  Struggle, Dollars, Would Be

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