Quotes about Incentive

You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

If people are basically selfish -and they are- then asking them to work hard yet earn no more than their unproductive neighbor is asking more than they'll rarely give. But we already know that; communism has failed.

Neither can one who wills the Good do so out of fear of punishment. In essence, this is the same thing as willing the Good for the sake of a reward.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

Hope is the anchor of the soul the stimulus to action and the incentive to achievement.

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

If you're going to make more money, you need to get in touch with the emotions surrounding your incentive for making it, because emotions are what drive you to action.

We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment.

If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.