Best 583 quotes in «advantage quotes» category

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.

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

Every advantage has its tax.

Every advantage has its disadvantage.

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 disadvantage has its advantage.

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.

Everything has its advantages and disadvantages.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

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

Great is the advantage of patience.

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it.

Great opportunity is all around you and it will inspire you to either take advantage of it or deny that it is there.

He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.

Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team

I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

I am happy I have competition. It keeps me on my toes all the while and stops me from becoming complacent. So, it works to my advantage.

I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified.

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.

I can't see any advantage to fame. I'm happy with the life I have now. I've got the same two friends I've had since I was 12, and I can't see that changing.

I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.

I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.

I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.

I disobeyed a basic basketball rule and never boxed out. I figured that if I had the inside position I had enough of an advantage to just go get the ball. And coaches left me alone because I got it.

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.