Best 583 quotes in «advantage quotes» category

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

A child should have every advantage - including those taught by disadvantage.

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.

Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.

Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.

Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.

All I ever wanted was an unfair advantage

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.

Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation.

A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.