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Quotes About Benefits

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.
~ Jerry Costello
Diminishing utility. Sometimes, newly introduced performance metrics will have immediate benefits in discovering poorly performing outliers.5 Having gleaned the low-hanging fruit, there is tendency to expect a continuingly bountiful harvest. The problem is that the metrics continue to get collected from everyone. And soon the marginal costs of assembling and analyzing the metrics exceed the marginal benefits.
~ Jerry Z. Muller
But what can be measured is not always what is worth measuring; what gets measured may have no relationship to what we really want to know. The costs of measuring may be greater than the benefits.
~ Jerry Z. Muller
Clearly Andrea prefers to be the adored other woman than the avoided wife. Yes, there are trade-offs, but there are also benefits.
~ Esther Perel
The paternalist in Churchill wanted, in Masterman's critical but essentially accurate phrase, 'a state of things where a benign upper class dispensed benefits to an industrious, bien pensant, and grateful working class'.
~ Andrew Roberts
We have now turned things into a continuous operation at the expense of flexibility, and we can no longer prepare each customer's order exactly when and how he requests it. So our customers have to adjust their expectations if they want to enjoy the benefits of our new mode: lower cost and more predictable product quality.
~ Andrew S. Grove
It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.
~ Andrew Weil
The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But there is abundant evidence that regular, brisk walking is associated with better health, including lower blood pressure, better moods and improved cholesterol ratios.
~ Andrew Weil
Shall I tell you good Witcher, what good people are ? They're people whom fate hasn't blessed with the chance of profiting from the benefits of being evil
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Der Fortschritt", sagte er schließlich, "ist wie eine Herde Schweine. Und so muss man diesen Fortschritt betrachten, so muss man ihn bewerten. Wie eine Herde Schweine, die auf dem ganzen Gehöft herumlaufen. Aus der Existenz dieser Herde ergeben sich verschiedene Vorteile. Es gibt Schinken. Es gibt Wurst, es gibt Speck, es gibt Eisbein in Aspik. Kurzum, Nutzen! Und da braucht man nicht die Nase rümpfen, dass alles vollgeschissen ist.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
the more harm happens to idiots, the greater the benefits to the judicious.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Everything in this world,' Urban Horn observed casually, 'occurs under the banner of the fight for truth. And though it usually concerns all sorts of truths, one truth benefits from it. The real truth
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Progress," he said finally, "is like a herd of pigs. That's how you should look at progress, that's how you should judge it. Like a herd of pigs trotting around a farmyard. Numerous benefits derive from the fact of that herd's existence. There's pork knuckle. There's sausage, there's fatback, there are trotters in aspic. In a word, there are benefits! There's no point turning your nose up at the shit everywhere.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
We believe that the major benefits of testing happen when you think about and write the tests, not when you run them.
~ Andy Hunt
The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances the use of Tax Incremental Finance and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities.
~ Andy Sawford
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
~ Andy Warhol
I never thought I would hear Labour and Scottish Nationalist ministers in both Westminster and Holyrood publicly recognise the environmental benefits of good grouse moor management.
~ Nicholas Soames
I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away.
~ Ron Wyden
I think one of the most underreported and untouted benefits of the Affordable Care Act is the real investments we are finally making in this country in prevention.
~ Kathleen Sebelius
While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.
~ Mark Kennedy
I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
~ Rachel Kushner
Although everyone does benefit from lower-priced goods and services, people also care greatly about the chance to be productively employed and the quality of their work. Declining employment opportunities feel real and immediate; the rise in real incomes brought by lower prices does not.
~ Michael Spence
Every barrel of oil that we produce around the world benefits Americans because it keeps prices down. We can talk more later about American energy independence, but the facts are, every barrel we produce helps Americans because it keeps prices down.
~ John S. Watson
I believe that, in principle, it is easier to get into the national team if you perform well at Bayern, compared to what the benefits of playing for other clubs are.
~ Mats Hummels