Best 583 quotes in «advantage quotes» category

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

In life we have decisions to make, paths to take and opportunities to take advantage of.

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

[In picking stocks] You really have to know a lot about business. You have to know a lot about competitive advantage. You have to know a lot about the maintainability of competitive advantage. You have to have a mind that quantifies things in terms of value. And you have to be able to compare those values with other values available in the stock market.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.

In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart.

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

Iraq has gone from being on the brink to being on the mend, and it clearly has some big advantages.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

It feels like being a woman now gives you a slight advantage.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.

It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.

It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.

It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree.

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.

It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.

It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.

It's actually four, because the fifth state they get the advantage with a tie. It's literally four states out of 50, 57 if you're [Barack] Obama.

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.

It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.

I've taken advantage of the laws. And frankly, so has everybody else in my position.

I want to take advantage of any popularity I have.

I was always in the right place at the right time, always willing to take advantage of an opportunity.

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara

It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel.

I've always been big. I'm never going to be an underwear model. But I am who I am, and that has its advantages and disadvantages.

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.