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• If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

  Manmohan Singh

  Cutting, Ideas, World

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• He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his effort to achieve increasing production. Representing over a half of Japan's total population, the agriculture workers have become an invincible barrier against the advance of socialistic ideas which would relegate all to the indignity of state servitude.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Wisdom, Japan, Ideas

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• Will a guaranteed annual wage kill incentive among the poor? If a man is given a certain amount of security, won't he quit working? Exactly the same contention could be made about the sons of the wealthy who are left large fortunes. Yet the evidence suggests that, given economic freedom, people will generally choose to do that which interests them most. It is up to society to see that these interests are widened and that too requires investment.

  Pierre Berton

  Son, Men, People

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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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• Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Approval, Virtue, Renown

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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 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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• It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.

  Albert Shanker

  Education, School, Innovation

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• A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the challenge of getting ahead in the organization provides a satisfactory focus for a while. But these incentives alone are rarely strong enough to inspire workers to give their best to their work. For this a vision is needed, an overarching goal that gives meaning to the job, so that an individual can forget himself in the task and experience flow without doubts or regrets. The most important component of such a vision is an ingredient we call soul.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Strong, Jobs, Regret

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• Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

  Alfie Kohn

  Play, Risk, Trying

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware of two opposite errors: of letting your imagination soar unballasted by facts, but on the other hand, of shackling it so solidly that it loses all incentive to rise.

  Percival Lowell

  Errors, Hands, Opposites

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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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• Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers - a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars - and on up through the university. On the job people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Stars, Jobs, Motivation

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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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• Instead of building housing in a wealthy neighborhood and saying, here you go, here's some under the market which will, by the way, drop the market for everyone's housing. Go into the lower income neighborhoods and say, here's a business incentives, so that people can get jobs.

  Eric Bolling

  Jobs, People, Way

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility, in establishing a national minimum it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than the minimum for himself and his family.

  William Beveridge

  Encouragement, Responsibility, Opportunity

  "The Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. November 1942.

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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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• I do believe in tax incentives in order to move the economy forward.

  Steve Southerland

  Believe, Moving, Order

  "Rep. Southerland, Rep. Van Hollen on the 'war on poverty'; What does an unstable Iraq mean for US security?". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. January 12, 2014.

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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 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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• Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Income, Wealth

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.228, Crown Business

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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 incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Giving, Make Or Break

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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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