Best 583 quotes in «advantage quotes» category

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.

Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don't want. It's like a cigarette tax.

Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.

Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.

Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.

Conall,” “Aye, Alexia?” He looked up at her. Was that fear in his caramel eyes? “I am going to take advantage of you,” she said

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

Design is the last great competitive advantage.

Competitive advantage is a companys ability to perform in one or more ways that competitors cannot or will not match.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

Each of us can, by ploy or gambit, most naturally gain the advantage.

Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.

Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else.

Empowering people turns Wal-Mart's culture into a competitive advantage.

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

Every advantage has its tax.

Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.

Every advantage has its disadvantage.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

Everything has its advantages and disadvantages.

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.

Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager

First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

Genuine listening ability is one of the few true forms of competitive advantage.