Best 583 quotes in «advantage quotes» category

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 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.

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

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

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 was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening

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

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.

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

Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

I want to take advantage of any popularity I have.

I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

Keeping up is a fool's game; seek advantage instead.

Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others.

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

Lets take full advantage of this discovery

Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man’s work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.

Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes.

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.

Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all.

Mexico will not be taking advantage of us. They will not be having open borders.

Many business intuitions and expertise are going to be valuable; they are telling you something useful, and you want to take advantage of them.

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote.

MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.

[Millennials ] are sharing cars. They're sharing apartments. I'm not sure my generation quite knows how to take advantage of it.

Mr. Market's job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to.

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.

My height is an advantage, if I want to use it.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)