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Definition of Incentive
Incentive

Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.

Serving to kindle or set on fire.

That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action.

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Incentive Quotations

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Herbert Hoover

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William Hazlitt

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.
William Weld

The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
Major Owens

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden

Incentive Translations

incentive in French is stimulus
incentive in German is Anreiz {m}
incentive in Norwegian is incitament, ansporende, oppmuntring
incentive in Spanish is estimulo, incentivo
incentive in Swedish is motivation


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