Best 583 quotes in «advantage quotes» category

American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.

A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.

An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.

A related advantage of mission oriented ideas, is that you yourself will be dedicated to them.

Any MC who chooses to go up against me is getting taken advantage of like Monica Lewinski

A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

As an athlete, there are advantages being with a team and getting regular physio...

As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

As to sex, the original pleasure, I cannot recommend too highly the advantages of androgyny.

As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh.

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.

A third advantage of mission oriented companies, is that people outside the company are more willing to help you.

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

Be careful in your relations with the government; for they draw no man close to themselves except for their own interests. They appear as friends when it is to their advantage, but they do not stand by a man in his time of stress.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

Being an NFL quarterback there's a lot of advantages that come with it. There are a lot of doors that open when you're a quarterback but at the same time there's a lot of scrutiny. There are a lot of things you can't do as well.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

Bigger brands like Shinola are capitalizing on what all of us small companies did. Shinola is just totally fake. It's a corporate entity that's taking advantage of what everybody else has done. They say it's all about made in U.S., but one Wal-Mart hires more employees than their whole company.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

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