Financial Incentive Quotes

What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.

I'd only do Big Brother again if you paid me three times as much money.

I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'

You can invest as much as you want in infrastructure and education. But in the end people have to be allowed to make a profit from their work.

Money. All these guys care about is money. They want money. How much money have we given them?

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?

I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn't like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out his house and got him to get a new car. He said to me, 'If I give you $10,000, will you find me my wife because I want someone like you?' And within a year, he got married. That was the first match that led to me leaving my corporate job.

Introducing a social investment tax relief will make investment even more appealing and accessible.

The problem with taking venture capital is if you take $5m from someone, it may feel great; you may feel like they're validating your business model. But they're giving $5m out to 20 different people, hoping one of them will be a hit. They don't really care if it's you.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

If you put enough money on the table, Congress will respond to the money.

I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.

We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.

My motivation wasn't really to get a $95 million contract, you know?

I imagine there are some people who would work even if they received no remuneration at all. They would work for the pure joy in the work itself. But I also recognize the fact that there is a great deal of work which must of necessity be done because of the financial return it brings, even though the task is rather dull. It is this latter type of work that creates our difficulty. How to find an incentive that will make all people, regardless of the work which they do, work as hard as they can—because the world community profits by their work—is one of the problems of education which we are certainly far from solving.

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.

I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.

I'll fight anyone for enough money. Give me half a million dollars.

I could always fight overseas, but who wants to do that? They'd really have to make it worth my while.

When Puffy asked me to do the video, I said yes. Cuz it's all about the Benjamins!

It all comes down to money. If the money is right, I'll fight anybody, any time. I'll hit my grandma in the face if the price is right.

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.

Liam Smith hasn't got a belt, but I can get excited about that fight. If they pay me seven figures for the fight, I'll take that fight.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.