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I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it.
— Charlie Munger
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.
— Jimmy Wales
Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
— Ben Bernanke
Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.
— Julian Assange
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
— Steven Johnson
Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives
— Claude C. Hopkins
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
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
Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary.
— Steven Landsburg
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
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
— Nikita Khrushchev
When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.
— Carlos Slim
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
— Timothy Ferriss
In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.
— Ilana Mercer
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
Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.
— Charlie Munger
Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies.
— Richard Branson
The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.
— Ludwig Von Mises
It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.
— Bruno Frey
It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.
— Larry Williams
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.
— Mitt Romney
Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
— John Lancaster Spalding
I think we have to take a look at corporate law. We have to take a look at the incentives that we can perhaps use to encourage more longer term.
— Hillary Clinton
We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don't is because it is detrimental to teamwork.
— Jeff Bezos
To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.
— Jayne Mansfield
An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.
— John F. Kennedy
The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.
— Elizabeth Berg
I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.
— Maxine
All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.
— Steven Soderbergh
We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration.
— Michael Pollan
The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last
— Phil Harding
Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.
— Robert L. Bradley Jr.
If you wanted to predict how people would behave, Munger said, you only had to look at their incentives.
— Michael Lewis
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I have learned that human beings are all about incentives
— Harlan Coben
Politicians like to talk about incentives - for businesses to relocate, for example, or to get folks to buy local.
— Tom Golisano
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
— W. Edwards Deming
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
I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.
— Greg Fitzsimmons
What makes capitalism succeed is not chiefly its structure of incentives but its use of knowledge and experience.
— George Gilder
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
I do believe in tax incentives in order to move the economy forward.
— Steve Southerland
I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.
— Richard Thaler
The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.
— Ha-Joon Chang
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
The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.
— John M. Perkins
Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
— Willa Cather
Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, few of us would behave well.
— Timothy Snyder
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
If you want to predict a person's behavior, identify his or her incentives. Leo
— Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.
— Marion Nestle
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.
— Andy Warhol
But there were certain incentives for slaves who showed loyalty to their masters, even if it meant betraying another slave.
— Tracey Bateman
Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.
— Johan Norberg
Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.
— Thomas Sowell
Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.
— David Limbaugh
The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.
— Edward Norton
We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.
— William Ruckelshaus
Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.
— Bill Gates
People might not change but their incentives could.
— Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
