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• Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution.  Those who execute always have the upper hand.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Average, Hands

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• He'd be better off shoveling snow.

  Richard Strauss

  Snow, Musical

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• Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our money, we are very unlikely to end up better off on net balance.

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving, Imperfection, Forever

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• What we’re putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state… for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.

  David Cameron

  Thinking, Years, Benefits

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• Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

  Alexander Herzen

  Order, Civilization, Slavery

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• In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mattel's Intellivision, instead of Atari's legendary gizmo. This was good training for a writer, for the sooner you accept the fact that you are a deluded idiot who is always out of step with reality the better off you will be.

  Colson Whitehead

  Reality, Apples, Years

  "A Psychotronic Childhood" by Colson Whitehead, www.newyorker.com. June 4, 2012.

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• To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources—not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Ends, Resources, Wells

  Daniel H. Pink (2012). “To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others”, p.31, Penguin

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• The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people.

  Bill Schneider

  People, Political, Scare

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• We are all created by the Almighty and like Him, I love all of humanity. We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other.

  Phil Robertson

  Humanity, Almighty, Ifs

  "Meme: A&E Suspends Phil Robertson, Shia Labeouf's Extensive Plagiarism, Steve Carell Discusses Ryan Gosling's Junk" by newnownext.com, December 19, 2013.

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• Jesus came down in flesh and solved both of them. So for me, my household - I just think that we would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other. At the end of the day you will be happy, happy, happy.

  Phil Robertson

  Jesus, Thinking, The End Of The Day

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• If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Giving, Alcohol, Shooting

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 9, 2012.

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• One who believes all of a book would be better off without books

  Mencius

  Believe, Book, Would Be

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• Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her own interest is incorrect. This is shown by what are known as "prisoner's dilemma" situations, which are playing an increasingly important role in discussions of ethical theory... At least on the collective level, therefore, egoism is self-defeating - a conclusion well brought out by Parfit in his aforementioned Reasons and Persons.

  Peter Singer

  Self, Important, Doe

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• I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all.

  Frank Dobson

  Believe, School, Thinking

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• Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Vegetarianism, People, Meat

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• I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.

  Nina Bawden

  Country, Mother, War

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• We'd be better off if we only had the words 'I love you.'

  Gackt

  Love You, Ifs

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• You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.

  Ben Horowitz

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• I think if women put some more of the time and money they put on their heads in their heads, they’d be better off.

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, Time And Money, Ifs

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• We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.

  Tom DeLonge

  Jobs, Fun, College

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• Cats are people, and the sooner the world accepts that fact, the better off the world will be.

  H. Allen Smith

  Cat, People, World

  H Allen Smith (2015). “Rhubarb”, p.230, eNet Press

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• A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Writing, Men

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.5186, Delphi Classics

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• You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Half, Kick Ass, Kicks

  David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried (2010). “ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever”, p.70, Random House

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• But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

  Nick Hanauer

  Unemployment, Minimum Wage, Littles

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• It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later step into new directions and responsibilities with greater stability and clarity. Only you will know the answer to that, and only in the moment.

  David Allen

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Reality

  David Allen (2008). “Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life”, p.192, Penguin

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