Sharon Stone Quotes

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

They regard as just whatever they believe to be advantageous.

Men will always be powerfully influenced in their Opinions and Actions by what appears to be their particular Interest.

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.

I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it.

We are human beings. We operate from wanting to be rewarded.

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

He too, liked his party, and was fond of loyal men; but he had learned at last that all loyalty must be built on a basis of self-advantage. Patriotism may exist without it, but …loyalty in politics was simply devotion to the side which a man conceives to be his side, and which he cannot leave without danger to himself.

Experts are human, and humans respond to incentives. How any given expert treats you, therefore, will depend on how that expert's incentives are set up.

The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.

What motivates most people to change their behavior is consequences. No consequences? No behavior modification.

Look, at the end of the day, we do what we do because it suits us.

One of the greatest motivating factors is the pat on the back, although with some individuals, you have to make the pat a little lower or a little harder.

I found this deer toy that poops out candy. And so if I say, 'Cree, you have to go to bed right now. You will get a candy.' We've named the pooping deer 'Gus.'... He gets a jelly bean. And it works. Positive reinforcement is the way to go. I'm learning things like that which help me be a better parent.

Bureaucrats serve their own interests first.

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

How do you motivate a human being to do things against his own nature? There's two things: love and fear. And to me, love wins every time.

Out of all the climbers of this generation, I was the one who became known to the larger public. Many of them - not all of them, but many of them - understood they had only one chance to use me for their personal gain. And it's very easy to use me.

If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?