“What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.” PeopleIfsDoeCommunityEffortProduceBenefitsCreatingTradePropertyRewardsMutualFree MarketIncentivesPrivate PropertySurplusMutual Benefit Author:John Stossel
“There is a difference between creating something and just capturing something. And when we were using film, it was not that fast, and it was expensive, so there was incentive to make sure the shot was exactly right before we rolled. With digital, it's fast and its cheap, and it's easy to bypass the rest.” FilmEasyDifferencesCreatingShotsExpensiveDigitalIncentivesCreating SomethingBypass Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“Green is not just about renewable energy. It's also about creating a new direction for the whole economy. This requires government to step up, not step back, creating the kinds of mission-oriented public organizations that will enable us to tackle climate change - as ambitious as those that got us to the moon. It also requires the financial sector to be less short-term since we know that short-term finance has distorted incentives and directions in areas like biotechnology.” KnowsKindWholeGovernmentEnergyTermStepsEconomyMoonCreatingAreasOrganizationGreenClimateClimate ChangeFinancialMissionsFinanceAmbitiousIncentivesShort TermStep UpRenewable EnergyNew DirectionsBiotechnology Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“So not only are we saving lives now, we're creating the incentive for the breakthroughs that over the next generation will mean we can take AIDS, malaria and TB and bring those numbers dramatically down.” MeanNextNumbersGenerationsCreatingAidsSavingIncentivesBreakthroughNext GenerationSave A LifeMalaria Author:Bill Gates
“If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally.” PeopleIfsUseWalksJourneyWalkingCreatingWork OutWanderLunchHikingWorkplaceIncentivesStairsTrekkingStrollingSauntering Author:Mehmet Oz