#ben

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#benefits #better #better off #children #control

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes. ↗

— Tori Amos

#commercial #company #control #expensive #hand

Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and the environment that come from planting trees and creating new woodland habitat. It's obvious trees are good things. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#come #countless #creating #environment #gathered

First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#benign #built #challenge #company #economic

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#approximately #basic #ben #ceo #cloud

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#benefits #found #giver #giving #i

People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. ↗

— Sharron Angle

#always #benjamin #benjamin franklin #conservative #fairly

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited. ↗

— Michael Apted

#conceive #creative #credited #direct #directors

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#always #bad #because #beneficial #even

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#called #does #enemy #except #harm