Best 583 quotes in «advantage quotes» category

If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

I like to take advantage of the simple-minded because I can.

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

I'm an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it.

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

I have nothing to do with comics. I know nothing about comics. I am aware of the importance of comics, but they're not within my world. Not because I feel that I'm above it, but just that micro-surgery is not in my world either. Is that a deficit or is that an advantage?

I'm just delighted to get my hands on him. Paul Nicholls was very good about the whole affair. He said he would like to retain him but felt it was to the advantage of his owners he should be sold at this time.

I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.

Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.

I'm not worried about young people seeing an opportunity and taking advantage of it.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.

I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.

I'm just taking advantage of good pitches. I am seeing the ball well and my confidence is high.

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

In life we have decisions to make, paths to take and opportunities to take advantage of.

In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.

In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart.

[In picking stocks] You really have to know a lot about business. You have to know a lot about competitive advantage. You have to know a lot about the maintainability of competitive advantage. You have to have a mind that quantifies things in terms of value. And you have to be able to compare those values with other values available in the stock market.

Iraq has gone from being on the brink to being on the mend, and it clearly has some big advantages.

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.

It feels like being a woman now gives you a slight advantage.

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.

It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue.

It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.