97 Quotes About Incentives
- Author Nathan Myhrvold
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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- Author Peter Medawar
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The intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or false. The importance of the strength of our conviction is only to provide a proportionately strong incentive to find out if the hypothesis will stand up to critical evaluation.
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- Author Robert Motherwell
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Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.
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- Author Gary Numan
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If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.
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- Author Marion Nestle
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It's a tremendous way of getting people to buy more at lower cost to the producer. There's no question that that's an incentive to buy. Everybody loves a bargain.
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- Author Marion Nestle
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The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.
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- Author Ramez Naam
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If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.
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- Author Yumi Nishimura
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There was a string of positive trading incentives today.
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- Author Elinor Ostrom
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There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.
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