Incentives Quotes - Page 7

• Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

  Barack Obama

  Play, Political, Gerrymandering

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• For instance with regard to tourism, that we should be able to target people who are interested in investing in the tourism sector and explain that this is the size of the market, these are the incentives in this particular area, this is the capacity, this is what is needed.

  Thabo Mbeki

  People, Tourism, Target

  Source: www.gov.za

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• Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.

  J. B. Jackson

  Rejection, Reform, Restoration

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• I am aware of what the position is in the United States of America. If somebody gives to charity, then he gets a tax incentive, provided the charity is registered in terms of the law.

  Nelson Mandela

  Law, America, Giving

  Source: www.mott.org

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• Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.

  Ben Bernanke

  Humanity, Today, Capacity

  "Ben Bernanke Optimistic About Future Innovation In Commencement Address" by Alister Bull, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2013.

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• There's only one problem that bothers me. And that's something my theorem [ of Impossibility] really doesn't cover. In my theorem I was assuming people vote sincerely. The trouble with methods where you have three or four classes, I think if people vote sincerely they may well be very satisfactory. The problem is the incentive to misrepresent your vote may be high.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Thinking, Class, People

  Source: electology.org

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• Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities.

  John F. Kennedy

  Effort, Risk, Growth

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• Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

  Julian Assange

  Balance, Bitcoin, Starting

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• If you take from the rich you give the rich less incentive. If you give what you have taken from the rich to the poor, you make the poor more dependent. Nobody wins.

  Josh Bernstein

  Taken, Winning, Giving

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• If you take sales presentations and brokers of commercial real estate and businesses... I'm 70 years old, I've never seen one I thought was even within hailing distance of objective truth.... 'incentive-caused bias,' causes this terrible abuse. And many of the people who are doing it you would be glad to have married into your family compared to what you're otherwise going to get.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Distance, Years

  Charlie Munger's speech on the psychology of human misjudgment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1995.

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• The news is a public service. It's a way to inform people of what's going on in their world. And when you make it about ratings and make it about ad dollars, there's no incentive to inform people. The incentive is to be sensationalistic and get as many people to watch as you can without any regard for truth or objectivity.

  Michael Schur

  Objectivity, People, News

  "Michael Schur walks us through Parks And Recreation's third season". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 26, 2011.

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• What I want is natural gas to be a bridge to a cleaner energy future, not a dam against a cleaner energy future, not a dead end. To get this right, to get the most out of it, we not only have to make sure we exploit natural gas in a clean way - it's a challenge - but we also have to make sure that we are instilling and implementing all the incentives to win solar, nuclear energy efficiency that will make them continually competitive with natural gas in the future.

  Thomas Friedman

  Winning, Bridges, Challenges

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• People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Needs, Investing

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• I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the capacity and the incentives to bring change? The banks and other corporations love the system because it allows them to buy legislation that serves their own interests even at the expense of the vast majority of citizens. Incumbent politicians love the system because it allows them to raise millions of dollars toward defending their seats.

  Thomas Pogge

  Thinking, Majority, Dollars

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring misinformation, miseducation and illiteracy.

  Rhymefest

  Artist, Musical, Bunch

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Acceptance, Past, Driving

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• Every company that manufactures something is causing some damage either to the soil or water or air. Most companies treat these as externalities. But the growing movement of sustainability calls for companies to internalize these costs. Once companies do this, they will have a strong incentive to reduce their carbon footprint.

  Philip Kotler

  Strong, Carbon Footprint, Air

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

  Edward Norton

  Roots, Profit

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

  John S. Watson

  Energy, Demand, Ifs

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• I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey.

  Joe Kyrillos

  Jobs, Employment, Bills

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• To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, People, Dollars

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• Although traditional incentives such as bonuses or recognition can prod people to better performance, no external motivators can get people to perform at their absolute best. . . .Wherever people gravitate within their work roles, indicates where their real pleasure lies—and that pleasure is itself motivating.

  Daniel Goleman

  Lying, Real, People

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• Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as an incentive for people to show up early.

  David Ulevitch

  Up Early, People, Waffles

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• The concept of Who Am I is following me around from 2001 to 2005, I filmed high quality videos but never really serviced them to the television so I saved those and I knew that would be an incentive for the fans.

  Cormega

  Quality, Fans, Would Be

  Source: fatlacemagazine.com

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• Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give us the spiritual strength and the incentive to strengthen our political and social and economic position right here in America, and to fight for the things that are ours by right here on this continent.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Mean

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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