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The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
— Paul Watson
To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
— James A. Garfield
You've always been my incentive.
— Elizabeth Reyes
There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.
— David Brock
A person who is lying or cheating will often respond to an incentive differently than an honest person.
— Steven D. Levitt
Government has every incentive to ration care for the sick and lavish attention on the healthy.
— Regina Herzlinger
We need to give people more of an incentive to work, to save, to invest, to create a true future for themselves.
— Suze Orman
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome
— Charlie Munger
And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.
— Jill Dando
To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.
— James Risen
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
One cannot underestimate boredom as an incentive to write.
— Philip Zaleski
When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.
— Fareed Zakaria
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
— Herbert Hoover
An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation
— Steven D. Levitt
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
Given the proper incentive, no mountain, it seems, is too high to climb, no current too swift to swim, if one is a Cherokee.
— Grace Steele Woodward
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
— Louis L'Amour
If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product.
— Joshua Schachter
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes BY ALFIE KOHN
— Daniel H. Pink
When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.
— Carlos Slim
Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change.
— Linda P. Rouse
Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
— John N. Mitchell
Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.
— George Reisman
Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.
— Robert Motherwell
Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies.
— Richard Branson
It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
— Colson Whitehead
Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!
— Orison Swett Marden
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.
— Johan Norberg
The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism
— Miguel El Portugues
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
— Edward Norton
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
— W. Edwards Deming
I live in Vermont, and we don't have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don't have professional crew there.
— Colin Trevorrow
It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last
— Phil Harding
The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
— Abdallah II Of Jordan
I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.
— Andrew Lincoln
The incentive for a religious person turning into an atheist is to have a better and happier life
— M.F. Moonzajer
To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.
— Jayne Mansfield
Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
Death is not a release, but an incentive. The more focused you are on your death, the more righteously you live your life.
— Caitlin Moran
The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.
— Ludwig Von Mises
We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don't is because it is detrimental to teamwork.
— Jeff Bezos
The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.
— Jai Courtney
It seems that we had ... not a better education, per se, but perhaps more incentive to use it. They learn, but they hardly think.
— Ilona Andrews
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.
— John S. Watson
Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
— Edmund Phelps
We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
You learn very quickly not to make mistakes given the correct incentive to avoid them.
— Jim Butcher
Whatever the incentive, whatever the situation, dishonest people will try to gain an advantage by whatever means necessary. Or,
— Steven D. Levitt
I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.
— Richard Thaler
Fortune 500 companies are still using incentive programs that were proven ineffective almost a generation ago.
— Shawn Achor
When rewards ignore individual performance, the incentive to strive for excellence is lost.
— Frank Sonnenberg
I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.
— Virginia Wade
Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived.
— Liane Moriarty
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
— Alain De Botton
Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
— Willa Cather
To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.
— Mary Church Terrell
It's the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
— William Weld
The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.
— Marion Nestle
When the media enjoy such excessive profits from this mass hysteria, what incentive do they have to restrain it?
— T. Rafael Cimino
The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.
— David Limbaugh
Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.
— Bill Maris
In a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.
— Margaret Deland
Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
— Muhammad Yunus
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
— Walter Scott
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
— Aaron Neville
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.
— Alexis Korner
If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.
— Stephen Colbert
All the men I know add that "hands that prepared it" line. They must know it's right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.
— Vicki Covington
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
— William Hazlitt
Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His Wrath stops us from evil.
— Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
— Hosea Ballou