A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

I’m hopeful that the Big Three will be successful in moving away from incentives because that will stabilize things for all of us.

The question is, what incentives and what discounts have they needed to provide to get to that number and indeed just what is their operational efficiency?

Right now, Texas doesn’t have an incentive to give filmmakers. (The Dallas movie) is a great example of what we’re losing and what we’re leaving on the table. And Dallas is just one picture. I...

A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn’t depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.

The state provides incentives because they were going to get income-tax revenue. Local governments provided incentives because they were going to get machinery-and-tools revenue.

When I applied to graduate school many years ago, I wrote an essay expressing my puzzlement at how a country that could put a man on the moon could still have people sleeping on the...

I think incentives are very much an integral part of the industry. It’s a very sophisticated pricing tool. The Asians are clearly much more into the incentives game this year.

We will be receiving local incentives in a very small number of these projects.

Are people innately altruistic?” is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated–for good or ill–if only you find the right levers....

It’s very low-paying and leads nowhere. So really you have no incentives to get there. You have no places to move from that job. So we see very low-quality personnel who turn over very rapidly.

creative destruction.” But humankind has a great capacity for finding technological solutions to seemingly intractable problems, and this will likely be the case for global warming. It isn’t that the problem isn’t potentially large. It’s...

The last thing we can afford to do is give another reason for the intelligence and law-enforcement communities not to share info with its customers on the front lines, … Culturally these communities have adhered...

We’ve been working diligently to introduce new, healthier offerings that give schools a broader selection of better-for-you-options than ever before. We’re also providing incentives to our bottlers that will encourage compliance with the new policy....

The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and spiritually because motivation for work is produced by incentives and rewards only, an...

There was position adjustment as the market lacked direction and fresh buying incentives.

Why argue about things you can’t prove? We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere. There are all kinds of things we can...