Economic Incentive Quotes

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.

The Photo Album is the weakest record. For the first time in our careers, we found ourselves with an economic incentive to be on the road and to be making albums. We had cut ourselves free from the security of day-job life. The goals became primarily financial, at least for a while. That was the roughest time we had ever had as a band, because that was the first moment we realized that this was for real. We were not goofing around anymore. We all threw everything we had into this in a way where we all found ourselves really far from home, and we were stuck with each other.

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits.

Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies' or 'modern reproductions' on their own. It should instead regulate uses--like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work--that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance.

Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.

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

You lower the [tax] rate, you will motivate and incentivize more people to put more capital at risk to create more jobs.

For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest. He may have occasional fits of conscience and moral rectitude but otherwise his actions are governed by self-interest. It follows then that whatever the moral reasons for conservation it will only be achieved by the inducement of profit or pleasure.

Every one fastens where there is gaine.

If you raise taxes on something, you discourage that activity.

Obviously crime pays, or there would be no crime.

The only reason that people will preserve anything in nature is if money can be made off of it.

Cap and trade is a sledge hammer to freedom.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.