Quotes about Incentive

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

This was naturally a great incentive, and possibly indeed the main cause of the second big change, industrialization. A great deal has been written about the causes of the Industrial Revolution. But surely a necessary, if not sufficient, condition was that people who made fortunes be able to enjoy them in peace.

If doing the bad thing never brought benefits, no one would ever do

Reward only finished work: It's good to praise effort, but you should never reward it. Give

Behavior that is rewarded is behavior that will continue.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize any-one. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it. Remember, there is no other way.

The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.

Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done.

Satisfied needs do not motivate.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

In a story so good that it should be apocryphal, Zappos offers graduates of their two-week paid training school $2,000 if they will quit their new jobs.