This collection holds 289 incentives quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are William Hazlitt, Quintus Curtius Rufus and Willa Cather.

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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives

Producers shoot movies where the tax incentives are.

Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome

Like everyone else, rich people respond to incentives.

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

Let's give people more incentives to get fuel efficient vehicles.

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

I do believe in tax incentives in order to move the economy forward.

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies.

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

We expect to adopt tax incentives for businesses that invest in the country.

More climate-friendly, coordinated laws, policies, and incentives are needed.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

We must deregulate, we must provide an investment climate by giving incentives.

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.

When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.

It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.

The world's industry must gain incentives to stop polluting and to invest in clean technologies.

Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.

An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation

I'd rather live in a world where firms don't have these enormous incentives to spy on individuals.

You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.

The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.

Tax reform done right will improve incentives to invest in U.S. production and to repatriate profits.

I'm doing the 2015 5x50 challenge because ... t’s the most awesome incentive for your daily motivation!

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary.

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.

The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

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