97 Quotes About Incentives

  • Author Warren Buffett
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    Managers who want to expand their domain at the expense of owners might better consider a career in government.

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  • Author Steve Jobs
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    Incentive structures work, so you have to be very careful of what you incent people to do, because various incentive structures create all sorts of consequences that you can’t anticipate.

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  • Author Brian Ambrose
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    They think incentives will be leveling off. With all the new models being launched in next 12 to 18 months, they will not need incentives to spur sales.

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  • Author Dan Ariely
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    The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

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  • Author Ben Bernanke
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    With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.

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  • Author David Bryant
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    Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached

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  • Author Greg Brown
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    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.

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  • Author JEFF BEZOS
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    We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.

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