97 Quotes About Incentives

  • Author Efraim Levy
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    There are not so many people that can actually qualify for zero-percent financing. But the incentives get them into the dealership, where they might get something else.

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  • Author Haniel Long
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    The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

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  • Author Michael Lewis
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    The incentive for the outsider is to attack the system right up to the moment he is co-opted by it. The incentive for the insider -and this took some getting used to- is to allow yourself to be attacked, and then co-opt your most ferocious attackers, and their best ideas. The effect on the system as a whole is to make it more stable, because everyone winds up working on its behalf.

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  • Author Rod Lache
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    I don't see this as resulting in anything dramatically negative. Over time, you'll see incentives rising everywhere. But it's not anything scary yet.

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  • Author Steven Levitt
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    People who buy annuities, it turns out, live longer than people who don't, and not because the people who buy annuities are healthier to start with. The evidence suggests that an annuity's steady payout provides a little extra incentive to keep chugging along.

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  • Author Mickey Maurer
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    Our mission is to offer as little incentives as possible and still get the jobs. We're very pleased with it and they're pleased as well.

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