Incentive Quotes
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Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies.
richard branson— From his interview in The Sunday Mirror, 16th January 2000
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— Of God and Men, p. 12
Even the oil companies don't need an incentive of $4 billion to go out and explore. As my grandpop would say, "They’re doing just fine, thank you."
joseph ("joe") biden— Speech to national conference of the National Association of Black Journalists, Washington, D.C. (June 20, 2012)
Although a government study found that men’s health was much worse than women’s health or the health of any minority group, headlines around the country read: ‘Minorities Face Large Health Care Gap.’ They did not say: ‘Men Face Large Health Care Gap.’ Why? Because we associate the sacrifice of men’s lives with the saving of the rest of us, and this association leads us to carry in our unconscious an incentive not to care about men living longer.
warren farrell— p. 196. (Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex)
To see deep difficulty braved is at any time, for the really addicted artist, to feel almost even as a pang the beautiful incentive, and to feel it verily in such sort as to wish the danger intensified. The difficulty most worth tackling can only be for him, in these conditions, the greatest the case permits of.
Henry James— The Portrait of a Lady
Repealing drug laws would remove the risks involved with producing and distributing drugs, bringing 'street prices' crashing down (it's estimated that a 'spoon' of heroin would cost about a quarter in the free market), thereby eradicating any incentive that criminals might have to compete with legitimate businesses, and greatly reducing if not eliminating altogether any economic reason to ' push ' drugs on children.
l. neil smith— "Some Random Thoughts About the War On Drugs"
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— Chapter 8 (Zodiac (1988))
The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.
— Eli Broad cited in: Mike Boehm (May 04, 2012) "Eli Broad offers life lessons in 'The Art of Being Unreasonable'." Los Angeles Times
All men saved from the scattering influences of society by a powerful incentive, a cause, or an ideal of individual perfection, seldom fear the danger of being distracted by comers and goers.
— p. 202 (What we live by (1932))
Any recruiter will tell you that the incentive for enlistment is that it [being drafted] is inevitable if you don't.
— Lewis Blaine Hershey, director of the Selective Service System, address at The American University, Washington, D.C. (December 11, 1966), as reported by The New York Times (December 12, 1966), p. 53.
Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.
— George Reisman, in Capitalism : A Treatise on Economics (1996)
I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia
— Sam Walton, in Michael Bergdahl The 10 Rules of Sam Walton: Success Secrets for Remarkable Results, John Wiley & Sons, 17 December 2010, p.41
The Europeans have scarcely visited any coast, but to gratify avarice, and extend corruption; to arrogate dominion without right, and practice cruelty without incentive? But there isreason to hope?that the light of the gospel will at last illuminate the sands of Africa, and the deserts of America, though its progress cannot but be slow when it is so much obstructed by the lives of Christians.
— 1759 Introduction to The World Displayed.
