“I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.” PeoplePlansCollectivesIncentivesProvisionPensionDevising Author:Jacques Delors
“Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.” MatterGreaterTeamAmbitionTeamworkColleaguesRecognizingIncentivesGreater GoodPersuading Author:Greg Brown
“The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of low-income families have been extensively documented. The primary way that those with low incomes can advance in the market economy is to get married, stay married, and work—but welfare programs have created incentives to do the opposite.” WayHas BeensGovernmentBreakEconomyEffectsMarriedLowsProgramOppositesTragedyIncomePrimariesWelfareIncentivesTaxpayersMarket EconomyWasted LifeLow IncomeWelfare ProgramsGovernment Welfare Author:Michael Tanner
“Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.” GovernmentRunningGrowthLevelsHigherDemandTaxesInvestmentCrowdsSpendingTemporaryIncentivesReducingStimulusHigher LevelOutputGovernment Spending Author:Martin Feldstein
“When a company is charging money for a product - as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync - you understand its incentive for sticking with that product.” DoeCompanyProductsIncentivesCharging Author:James Fallows
“I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.” DesireFameGloryMaking MoneyIncentives Author:Juliana Hatfield
“Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production.” SelfMovingPolicyCostStandardsIntelligentCleanProductionsIncentives Author:Paul Hawken
“I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.” ThinkingKnowsEnoughProblemFightingBullyIncentivesObesityPulpit Author:Max Baucus
“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.” WholeWantedFeltAchieveAchievementGet BetterIncentives Author:Virginia Wade
“The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesImpossibleTaxesPercentRateCorporationsIncentivesOffshore Author:Frederick W. Smith
“From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.” GivingWellsLawCertainHoursCasesRiskPerspectiveExpectedLawyerAppealsFirmClientsIncentivesLaw FirmsBilling Author:Robert Pozen
“You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff.” LongLawHoursResearchInstitutionsBillsVariousFirmStaffIncentivesAccountingLaw Firms Author:Robert Pozen
“The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.” PeopleJobsEasierBenefitsGenerousUnemploymentIncentives Author:John Ensign
“If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.” IfsMenStillsCharacterActionScienceKnownHe ManInsightCertaintyOccasionsNeverthelessIncentivesEclipse Author:Immanuel Kant
“Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.” ChildrenProductsIndustryBillsCongressRemoveIncentivesWrong DirectionFood Industry Author:Bob Filner
“If you take a look at Medicare, there are things we could do, not just tort reform but truly reform the whole reimbursement system which will help in terms of reducing costs and creating the right kind of incentives for savings.” IfsLooksKindWholeHelpingTermCostCreatingSavingReformLook At MeIncentivesSavingsReducingMedicareTortsReimbursement Author:John Hoeven
“The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.” GivingCountryBreakYouthIncentivesMake Or Break Author:Abdallah II
“I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.” FeelsFilmIncentivesFilm Set Author:Andrew Lincoln