David Byrne Quotes

He that is won with a nut, may be lost with an apple.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

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

All those men have their price.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out that price

Everyone has their price. You just have to find out what it is.

It is greed or financial difficulty that makes people fix matches, not gaining an edge over rivals, so it is different from say Lance Armstrong or Ben Johnson.

You dangle a little bit of change in front of somebody and what do they do? They change right up like a chameleon.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.

People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to

Any time some politician tells you it's not about the money, it's about the money.

We got to make sure that we have the incentives for people to rise and not put them in a position of where they go to work and they lose more than what they gain and they're like this system is terrible.

People only respond to fear.

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

We need to give people more of an incentive to work, to save, to invest, to create a true future for themselves.

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.