More lessons from literature
Posted: January 19th, 2010 | Author: mark | Filed under: Incentives, Philosophy | Tags: Incentives, literature, Philosophy | No Comments »[This side of paradise. The egotist becomes a parsonage] F. Scott Fitzgerald
“If you’d have gone to college you’d have been struck by the fact that the men there would work twice as hard for any one of a hundred petty honors as those other men did who were earning their way through.”
“The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long we’ve forgotten there’s any other way. We’ve made a world where that’s necessary. Let me tell you” — “If there were ten men insured against either wealth or starvation, and offered a green ribbon for five hours’ work a day an a blue ribbon for ten hours’ work a day, nine out of ten of them would be trying for the blue ribbon.”
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