Incentive Quotes

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. (Herbert Hoover)
When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance. View quote
Ian MacKaye
Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. View quote
Hosea Ballou
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to. View quote
William Weld
As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce, then, should not feel unfairly culled as the worst conspirators against the human race. Every one of us is culpable in keeping the conspiracy alive, which is all right with most people. View quote
Thomas Ligotti
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. View quote
Cristiano Ronaldo
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear. View quote
Ayn Rand
Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies. View quote
Richard Branson
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. View quote
Neal Stephenson
Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous. (Natan Sharansky)
What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to each other for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer. View quote
John Stossel
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. View quote
Quintus Curtius Rufus
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business. View quote
Robert Sternberg
So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence. View quote
Sebastiao Salgado
The best incentive for the mind consists in teaching it that it is possible to do anything which one really wants to do. View quote
Pelagius
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right. View quote
Nathan Deal
An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation. View quote
Steven D. Levitt
The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience. View quote
Aaron Neville
I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief. View quote
Bob Graham
When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel. (Dave Van Ronk)
It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform. View quote
Henry Kravis
The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal. View quote
Hilary Rosen
And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England. View quote
Jill Dando
Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it. View quote
John S. Watson