Better Off Quotes

• Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Better Off Dead, Way, Turns

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2015

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• Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Investing Money, Investment Success

  Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.26, Random House

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• Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

  Donald Trump

  Investing Money, Entrepreneur, Paper

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

  Ronald Reagan

  Years, Four, Politics

  "Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches".

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• some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.

  Hugh Howey

  Past

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Shift: (Wool Trilogy 2)”, p.123, Random House

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• See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Philosophical

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

  Joey McIntyre

  Love You, Love Yourself, Learn To Love Yourself

  Song: Stay the Same, 1999

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• I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option. It isn't.

  Carl Paladino

  Children, Successful, Thinking

  "Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Stir National Fury". "Tell Me More" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. October 12, 2010.

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• Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

  Jobs, School, Proud

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• Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.

  Passenger

  Better Off Dead

  Song: Life's for the Living

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• Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Girl, Other Cultures, People

  "It’s All About Doing Some Thinking on This Very Special Day" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Tom Regan’s now classic Case for Animal Rights blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been taken seriously, animals have been better off and people have become better persons. This new edition is a welcome sign of this influence continuing.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Taken, Animal, Rights

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• Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.

  Richard Branson

  Powerful, Doing Nothing, Making Money

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• The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Father, Humor

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• I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others

  Carlos Slim

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Helping Others

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• Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

  Peter Lynch

  Would Be, Investing, Active Management

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• We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

  John Engler

  People, Broken, Promise

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• As soon as people realize that the majority of people in this country take drugs then the better off we'll all be. It's not like a scandalous sensation or anything like that... drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

  Noel Gallagher

  Country, Morning, People

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• The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom will be smarter than an expert's. But if you can assemble a diverse group of people who possess varying degrees of knowledge and insight, you're better off entrusting it with major decisions rather than leaving them in the hands of one or two people, no matter how smart those people are.

  James Surowiecki

  Wisdom, Smart, Mean

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.31, Anchor

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• Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical.

  Ronald Graham

  Learning, Creative Juices, Two

  Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik (1989). “Concrete mathematics: a foundation for computer science”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

  Tim Hansel

  Letting Go, Lasts, Lifetime

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• The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.

  Philip Pullman

  Sex, Book, Kids

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• Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.

  Thomas Szasz

  Men, Rocks, Trying

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.140, Transaction Publishers

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• In my opinion, we've spent $4 trillion trying to topple various people [on the Middle East] that frankly, if they were there and if we could've spent that $4 trillion in the United States to fix our roads, our bridges, and all of the other problems; our airports and all of the other problems we've had, we would've been a lot better off.

  Donald Trump

  Airports, Bridges, People

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

  John Travolta

  Jobs, Levels, Interviews

  "New Again: John Travolta". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2012.

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