#incentive

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to. ↗

— William Weld

#going #incentive #individual #natural #natural resources

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

#else #incentive #inefficient #knows #lunchtime

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#american #american interests #both #china #dialogue

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

#acts #bear #care #consequences #free

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take. ↗

— Barney Frank

#based #broader #compensation #country #decisions

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#bound #children #fact #forgiven #grow

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#great #hope #incentive #like #medicine

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

#community #considering #credit #encourage #even

The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience. ↗

— Aaron Neville

#experience #extras #feature #incentive #main

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

#breaks #computer #computers #down #end