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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

The challenge for the principal, then, is to devise incentives to ensure that she (the agent) will act in the best interest of her principal. This — Janine Wedel

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives. — David Stern

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

If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment. — Tom Rath

Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary. — Steven Landsburg

In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics? — Bryan Caplan

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

When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will. — Mary Ruwart

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

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures. — Carlos Ghosn

I'm doing the 2015 5x50 challenge because ... t's the most awesome incentive for your daily motivation! — David

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

If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit on their cash and not spend it. — Paul Krugman

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.

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

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary. — David Suzuki

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives. — Fred L. Turner

Let's give people more incentives to get fuel efficient vehicles. — Mitt Romney

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

Go Daddy is not just a job; it's a way of life. Our employees work hard, and offering great incentives is fun and productive for the company. — Bob Parsons

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

Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth — Bruno Frey

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

I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best. — John Liu

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

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny. — Carlos Slim

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

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

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

For the postwar peace, he preferred to minimize direct government intervention and manipulate the economy through fiscal and other incentives. — Tony Judt

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom. — James Taranto

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

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants. — Andy Warhol

Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working. — Vin Scully

Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility. — Dick Morris

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

Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached — David Bryant

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

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators. — Ralph Nader

People might not change but their incentives could. — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. — Ovid