Best 583 quotes in «advantage quotes» category

One thing I'm afraid of is not taking advantage of opportunities. I feel like these are kind of gifts.

One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

On the Web, all advantages are temporary, and you must keep innovating to stay ahead

Optimism is a competitive advantage.

Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.

Other countries have been taking advantage of America for decades - decades, and decades, and decades, folks. And we're not going to let that happen anymore. Not going to let it happen.

Other people have to understand where we are coming from, including our allies. Our allies have taken advantage of us.

Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner.

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest!

Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.

Sam [Mendes] said he took advantage of the fact that Kate and I were so close for many years. He knew it was something he could harness in our performances, and we knew that too.

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If you insist on having one as a friend, don't do interviews with him.

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business.

Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

Some comedians change their style, often to their advantage; but I see no reason why I can't continue with the "urbane sophisticate" 'til the day I die.

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster.

Smiling can be a competitive advantage. It makes everyone feel better and every situation brighter.

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

Success is about taking advantage of opportunity.

Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

Take all the swift advantage of the hours.

Take advantage and control the moment. Don't let the moment take control of you.

Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself, and let history record that as we toiled laboriously and courageously, we worked to live gloriously.

Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.

That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

That's the great advantage of being a foreigner: you're not paying your dues, but you are getting all the benefits.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.