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Quotes About Benefit

Looked at with the benefit of hindsight, his life, which at time had felt like a series of ingenious escapes, resembled rather more closely a succession of nooses, most of them self-tied. The self-tied ones will still hang you, though.
~ Joe Abercrombie
It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.
~ Joe Elliott
Science fiction as a genre has the benefit of being able to act as parable, to set up a story at a remove so you can make a real-world point without people throwing up a wall in front of it.
~ Joe Haldeman
There is a law of exponential increase in efficiency that applies to all lifeforms that cluster, synthetic or organic. It is the reason your ancestors found it more productive to move to cities than live in small groups. Humanity found a mathematical law to benefit from, and they've been exploiting that law ever since,
~ Joel Shepherd
Every disadvantage has an advantage.
~ Johan Cruyff
MEFISTOFELE Non posso darvi tutti i torti. So bene che cos'è questa dottrina. Leggi e giurisprudenza si trasmettono per eredità come un male perenne, si trascinano di generazione in generazione e passano inavvertitamente da un luogo a un altro. La ragione finisce nell'assurdità, il beneficio in un danno.
~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe
You should really stop worrying, develop the real wish to live and with a good motivation, [such as] "I have a better life and I can put that life at the benefit of others."
~ Matthieu Ricard
TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.
~ Rebecca Harding Davis
There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is insured for the benefit of my Dear Wife and children.
~ Ezra Cornell
We often despise what is most useful to us.
~ Aesop
Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.
~ Richard Branson
Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.
~ Tim Ryan
It's vital always to bear in mind that we practise for the sake of all other beings, and that the enormity of this aspiration is what makes dharma practice both extremely powerful and inexhaustible, virtually guaranteeing that the result will be infinitely beneficial.
~ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Money was the fruit of self-denial, and the second generation had a right to profit by the self-denial of the first
~ E.M. Forster
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.
~ Earl Nightingale
But the less one thinks of self's opinions, and the better listener one becomes, greater may be the opportunities for being of help or benefit to those about the entity.
~ Edgar Cayce
All government—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act—is founded on compromise and barter.
~ Edmund Burke
In our industrial and social system the interests of all men are so closely intertwined that in the immense majority of cases a straight-dealing man who by his efficiency, by his ingenuity and industry, benefits himself must also benefit others.
~ Edmund Morris
A bird in the hand is worth plucking, frying, and sticking between two bits of bread.
~ Edward Burns
Pro bono publico [For the public good].
~ Anonymous: Latin
Bis dat qui cito dat [He gives twice who gives promptly].
~ Anonymous: Latin
cost-benefit analysis.
~ Anthony Doerr
Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.
~ Timothy Murphy
I firmly believe we can bring back free and fair competition to the health care marketplace that will benefit consumers and providers alike.
~ Tommy Tuberville