Benefit Analysis Quotes

Who profits from this? Cui bono?

Regulations are a form of legislation and should be decided by a political process, not more or better benefit-cost analyses.

Cease to press this enterprise, for you cannot know if what you are doing will be of real advantage to you. Be content to rule in peace your own kingdom, and bear to see us reign over the countries that are ours to govern.

Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.

About the only useful thing my economics degree taught me was that, in all decisions in life, you have to do a cost-benefit analysis.

A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield greater benefit.

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?

When I look at offers, I think about the entire package and how it is going to work in my favour or how it's going to project me.

To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.

And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.

Hawks usually care about benefits; doves most about costs. Neither benefits or costs however are easily estimated in advance.

In medicine, there is always a balance between risk and benefit.

That's what we do when we work in Silicon Valley tech startups: We think about who's going to benefit from this. That's almost the only thing we think about.

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

What concerns you and me is simply who is putting the money in, who is getting it out, and what good it does

Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.