Welcome to our collection of incentive quotes, where inspiration meets motivation. Incentives play a pivotal role in driving individuals towards their goals, whether personal or professional. These quotes encapsulate the power of incentives in igniting passion, fostering determination, and fueling success.
Throughout history, great minds have recognized the significance of incentives in shaping human behavior and achieving remarkable feats. From renowned philosophers to influential leaders, the wisdom imparted through these quotes resonates with individuals from all walks of life. Whether you seek encouragement to embark on a new endeavor, or simply crave a dose of motivation to persevere through challenges, these incentive quotes are sure to uplift and empower you on your journey towards greatness.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes on this topic. Feel free to copy them, pair them with imagery, or even adorn them with stylish fonts to amplify their impact and share them with others. Let these words serve as a beacon of inspiration, guiding you towards realizing your aspirations and unlocking your full potential.
There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive. Lara St. John
While the transition from a combustion-powered society to electrification is already underway due to market forces alone, this transition will take generations without support. But we have every incentive – environmental, economic, and yes, moral – to speed the evolution. Joe Kaeser
If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas. Manmohan Singh
Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there’s demand for it at the price you can develop it. John S. Watson
When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there’s something I’m gonna’ learn here? If I feel like it’s something I’ve done before, then what’s the incentive for me to do it? Bill Skarsgard
Don’t reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a ‘moral hazard,’ because the bailout absolved the bank’s bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again. Eliot Spitzer
What happens is, illegal immigrants can run across the border, drop a baby, and say, ‘Ha-ha, there’s nothing you can do now. My kid’s an American citizen.’ Well, that wasn’t the intent of the 14th Amendment. Americans would not agree with that. It creates a horrible incentive. Ann Coulter
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. Gary Numan
Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second. Simon Sinek
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn’t do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It’s fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. Elmore Leonard
The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a ‘loophole’ or a tax incentive becomes a ‘subsidy for special interests’ is one of the great mysteries of politics. John Sununu
The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which ‘he bears to live or dares to die.’ It is the high incentive to those achievements which illustrate the page of history and give to poetry its brightest charm. John Tyler
My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too. Chelsea Clinton
Incentive prizes work. Peter Diamandis
New technology is useful, but it’s inefficient and ugly; it knows it’ll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. Tom Holt
There’s a rumour going ’round that if you amass a certain number of penalty points on your driving licence, the authorities will make you take your test again! Now, if ever there was an incentive to drive carefully, they could not have threatened a more terrifying ordeal. Jasper Carrott
The DNA-encoded catalytic machinery of the cell can rapidly learn to promote new chemical reactions when we provide new reagents and the appropriate incentive in the form of artificial selection. Frances Arnold
I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief. Bob Graham
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive – money – to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it. Paul Watson
When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse incentive to raise the stock price, particularly when the chief executive wants to exercise his own options. George Akerlof
When a company is charging money for a product – as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync – you understand its incentive for sticking with that product. James Fallows
The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States. Frederick W. Smith
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. Herbert Hoover
But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money. Michael Polanyi
The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work. August Krogh
For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest. Peter Singer
Investing in living-wage jobs and reducing the inequities between local school districts would give young people more, not less, incentive to postpone childbearing and more possibilities for independence. Stephanie Coontz
There’s a reasonable amount of traction in college education, particularly engineering, because quite a lot of that is privatized, so there is an incentive to set up new colleges of reasonably high quality. Azim Premji
In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in – Black Eyed Peas territory, disposable pop stuff – there’s almost an incentive to go back to making music as adventurous and groundbreaking as you can, because nobody gets a big hit anymore. Trent Reznor
In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we’re offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities – and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving. John M. McHugh
Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes. Harry Browne
Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as an incentive for people to show up early. David Ulevitch
Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures. Robert Reich
From the law firm’s perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client’s perspective, it doesn’t work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases. Robert Pozen
Thermostats are made by very large companies with no incentive to innovate. Their customers are contractors or HVAC wholesalers, not consumers. So why spend to make them better? It’s a good business. Tony Fadell
What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently. Colin Powell
You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I’m really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly, be there as long as possible, to over-research things and over-staff. Robert Pozen
When people who are songwriters say ‘That’s my property and if you give it away for free then I’ll lose my incentive,’ then, well, good riddance. Ian MacKaye
The fact that you can love something that you’ve lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb. CeeLo Green
I don’t feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set. Andrew Lincoln
Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can. Cristiano Ronaldo
When you’re failing, there’s a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work. Fareed Zakaria
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. Nathan Myhrvold
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. Haniel Long
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right. Nathan Deal
Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device, a library card and an Internet connection. In this new reality, the only incentive to buy, rather than borrow, an e-book is the fact that the lent copy vanishes after a couple of weeks. Scott Turow
I don’t make money on the road, and so there’s less and less incentive for me to do it when I don’t have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame. Juliana Hatfield
I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there’s a financial incentive. Jeremy Stoppelman
The incentive to ambition is the love of power. William Hazlitt
I live in Vermont, and we don’t have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don’t have professional crew there. Colin Trevorrow
America’s wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy. Thomas Peterffy
We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs… to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they’re going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans. Elizabeth Warren
I’ve heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but the opposite is true. Unemployment Insurance serves as a powerful incentive for people to keep searching for jobs, rather than drop out of the labor force altogether. Tom Perez
When you’re working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel. Dave Van Ronk
If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits – and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits – they do not have much incentive to follow the law. Elizabeth Warren
If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better. Peter Singer
When designing algorithms as a business owner, your incentive is your profit, something for your business, it’s not an incentive to maximise something for the individual. Hannah Fry
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself. Malcolm X
We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil. Rick Renzi
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired. Major Owens
So many times I’ve photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet – to see the innocence. Sebastiao Salgado
The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that’s really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don’t tell the truth. Vince Vaughn
The incentive of a medal at the biggest sporting arena in the world is what drives me. Before I hang my gloves, I want to win the Olympic medal, and my performance at London will decide my future in the sport. Mary Kom
The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero. Matt Taibbi
There’s every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever. David Brock
It’s the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem. Andrew Ross Sorkin
The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience. Aaron Neville
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading. Sandra Day O’Connor
And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England. Jill Dando
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they’re getting the business. Robert Sternberg
If you had a basic income, it would mean that everybody would have a base on top of which their earned income would be taxed at the standard rate of tax. That would increase the incentive to take low-wage jobs. Guy Standing
Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe. Sam Harris
What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out. Linus Torvalds
Making money is a happiness. And that’s a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness. Muhammad Yunus
In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays and faster processors to justify their high prices. Vivek Wadhwa
We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it. Susan Wojcicki
Five centuries from now – barring unimaginable catastrophe – the moon will be developed real estate. There’s economic incentive to exploit the moon – the helium-3 will be useful in powering fusion reactors, and the rare earth elements could supplant the limited terrestrial supply of these materials. Seth Shostak
When I first started working on ‘Secret Diary,’ I definitely felt like I needed to shape up. The idea of being in my knickers on TV was a great incentive! Now I try to eat right, and I go to Bikram yoga three or four times a week. I have my ‘naughty’ days, and I indulge in pizza and cake, but so what! Ashley Madekwe
The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal. Hilary Rosen
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn’t do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It’s fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can’t believe it when writers tell me ‘I don’t want to show my work to anybody’. Elmore Leonard
With the Australian Government paying more of the hospital bills, it will have the incentive to make sure people are treated through less expensive and more appropriate primary care services. Kevin Rudd
What I love about ‘Criminal Minds’ is that Morgan is an ex-marine, ex-SWAT. To do those things you have to be a pretty badass dude. It’s a great incentive to stay in shape. Shemar Moore
The threat posed by Bank of America isn’t just financial – it’s a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where’s the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn’t want to be a loser? Matt Taibbi
The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn’t even thought of – and then meet it. Eli Broad
Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works. John N. Mitchell
Increasingly we know that we’re going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who’s got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Women are so powerful they’re scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we’re subordinate. Alanis Morissette
Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top. Vernon Jordan
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn’t have had the incentive to start playing without it. Alexis Korner
Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they’re hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish – where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy – could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish. Ramez Naam
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. Hosea Ballou
We each take up one virtual space per title… Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book. J. A. Konrath
It’s not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we’ve given them the right incentive to perform. Henry Kravis
The cell phone companies add to the problem. Every one they give out, they get money for from the federal government. So they have an incentive to give as many away as possible. And that’s exactly what they’re doing, and they’re making a killing. Tim Griffin
Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources. One reason for this is that large resource endowments provide a huge financial incentive for attempts to overthrow the government and seize power. Peter Singer
The fact that you can love something that’s lost is all of the incentive that you’ll ever need to love again as opposed to becoming comfortably numb. CeeLo Green
The promise of welfare and welfare regulation mean that there is no incentive to accept jobs that do not meet basic standards. Jacob Rees-Mogg
It’s counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority. John Sununu
I was very excited about a currency that was not controlled by a central government, that could be a free market currency. That was all the incentive I needed to dedicate my life to it. Erik Voorhees
The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn’t use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored. John Poindexter
