Incentive Compensation Quotes

#1. The road to recovery led through the Land of Pain, that was all.

Stephen King

#2. The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

Jim Rohn

#3. I could burn this place down
As many times as I'd like in my mind,
Without any sympathy
For the girl or her mother
Who live beneath me

Matthew Little

#4. When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse incentive to raise the stock price, particularly when the chief executive wants to exercise his own options.

George Akerlof

#5. see you here, lad; old Kaiser Bill couldn't frighten

Elizabeth Elgin

#6. When you're younger, think less and do more; when you're older, do less and think more.

John Maeda

#7. The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.

John Young

#8. People will set a New Year's resolution: "I'm gonna get in shape this year." But they don't set a parameter for how they're gonna measure it. Or if they do measure it, they wait until the first day of the next year. You'd never run a business that way. Document your progress.

Jack LaLanne

#9. I dreamed of having a Gibson. I had a cheap Kent - you know, a Japanese guitar - and then a Kanora, a Japanese guitar. I borrowed a friend's Harmony for years. To have a Gibson was really, really my dream as a kid.

Alex Lifeson

#10. We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don't is because it is detrimental to teamwork.

Jeff Bezos

#11. Happiness is estentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly.

W.H. Sheldon

#12. I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.

Lisa Kudrow

#13. The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.

Robert Herrick

#14. It's hard for me to see characters as villains... just heroes with competing agendas.

Kirsten Beyer

#15. People of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world.

Zicheng Hong

#16. The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth with workers, ... Roughly 80 percent of those surveyed offer bonus programs and 401(k) or profit-sharing plans ... as they compete for the best and brightest workforce.

Jerry Jasinowski

#17. Her mission every minute of the day is to uncover the hilarity in random scenarios.

Adele Levine