Advantage Quote by Jean-Baptiste Say

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

— Jane Austen

I am not a creature of giant business and I think that small- and medium-sized businesses will derive the most benefit from the removal…

— Kenneth Clarke

“Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.”

— Jane Austen

Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.

— Wilfred Bion

The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion…

— Ludwig von Mises

I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about money and…

— Ken Osmond

In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more;while…

— Herman Melville

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.

— Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

I was never completely destitute. I think I borrowed money once off a friend, but I've always been quite careful with my money, having…

— Naomi Watts

The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having once possessed…

— Torbern Bergman

We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.

— Mata Amritanandamayi