Monetary Rewards Quotes

Like everyone else, rich people respond to incentives.

If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent.

I'm not oriented by money, to be honest. Everybody thinks we're in the music business for money all of the time. But that's not true for me.

Human laws are entirely destitute of the sanction of rewards. To confer honors for obedience would be as ridiculous as unavailing. The honor of many would resolve itself into the honor of none. To dispense pecuniary rewards would be nugatory or impracticable. In an unqualified extent, no government would be able to supply the funds; and even in a restricted form, its operation would be to receive money with one hand as a premium, and to pay it back with the other in the shape of a tax.

If you think about it, it requires a lot of effort and time and energy to make money in the real world, and if they made games equally as difficult to make money in, people wouldn't play them. So they are generally designed to be hyper-inflationary because that's more fun.

I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

I win my awards at the box office.

People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought.

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

Incentive prizes work.

Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.

Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?

Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.

A person is born with a liking for profit.

WCW and WWE were two totally different environments. A lot of guys in WCW were making a lot of money, and the work schedule wasn't that hard. You had to earn it in WWE.

I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.

A profession which is seen as intellectually glamorous is often the most misunderstood when it comes to the commerce involved.

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

I don't think bonuses are always bad.