Best 583 quotes in «advantage quotes» category

One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent emotions than the latter, are under fewer restraints also from taking undue advantage of the indiscretions of each other.

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

[On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living.

One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.

one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.

One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go.

One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends.

One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps.

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'.

Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

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.