Advantage famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
-- Abdallah II -
There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
-- Aeschylus -
One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
-- Alan Moore -
True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
-- Alexander Pope -
One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts.
-- Alfred Sheinwold -
To succeed in business, you must build a brand and never destroy it. One competitive advantage I had when I ventured into manufacturing was my brand “Dangote,†which I diligently built in the course of my trading commodities.
-- Aliko Dangote -
UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus -
Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.
-- Anais Nin -
The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.
-- Andre Kostelanetz -
As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.
-- Andreas Feininger -
We sometimes feel that if a person tromps over us after we've said no, then we must not have been clear. We can get caught in the trap of explaining again and again, meanwhile letting the other person take advantage of us.
-- Anne Katherine -
Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses.
-- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune -
The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.
-- Antisthenes -
I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
-- Arthur Erickson -
Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.
-- Aza Raskin -
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
-- B. F. Skinner -
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
The advantage of the rain is that, if you have a quick bike, there's no advantage.
-- Barry Sheene -
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster.
-- Bill Jensen -
If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
-- Biz Stone -
One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political caution.
-- Bob Lutz -
Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.
-- Bob Packwood -
You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.
-- Bruce Lee -
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.
-- Bruce Lee -
They all wanted to model for me because they knew I wouldn’t take advantage of them.
-- Bunny Yeager -
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
-- C. Wright Mills -
I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.
-- Carl Sagan -
There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
-- Carol Leifer -
The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
-- Charles Babbage -
The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
-- Charles Caleb Colton -
Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to see the bearing of scattered facts.
-- Charles Darwin -
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
-- Charles Duhigg -
When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.
-- Charles James Fox -
Every game, you will have a decided schematic advantage.
-- Charlie Weis -
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.
-- Chris Frantz -
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
People with power always take advantage of those without power.
-- Christopher Pike -
I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified.
-- Christopher Pike -
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.
-- Colin Kaepernick -
The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.
-- Confucius -
Getting your education is an advantage you have.
-- Daddy Yankee -
I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
-- Dan Auerbach -
Theres no competitive advantage in being just like everyone else.
-- Daniel Burrus -
Keeping up is a fool's game; seek advantage instead.
-- Daniel Burrus -
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
-- Demosthenes -
Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.
-- Derek Bok -
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.
-- Diane Keaton -
I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.
-- Diego Maradona -
My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.
-- Dieter Rams -
A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.
-- Don Herold -
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.
-- Donna Leon -
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers -
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.
-- Eda LeShan -
Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?
-- Edouard Manet -
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.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
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!'
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
-- Elliott Erwitt -
No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
-- Epictetus -
You have to take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity.
-- Eric Thomas -
It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.
-- Ethel Merman -
However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
-- Frank A. Clark -
I was always in the right place at the right time, always willing to take advantage of an opportunity.
-- Frank Abagnale -
It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree.
-- Frank Woolley -
Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.
-- Frans de Waal -
An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.
-- Fredrik Bajer -
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.
-- Gabriela Sabatini -
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.
-- Gail Carriger -
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.
-- Gamaliel -
An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
-- Gary Hamel -
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
-- George Stevens -
A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.
-- Georges St-Pierre -
If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.
-- Geraldine Ferraro -
I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.
-- Gerard Arpey -
One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.
-- Gerard Depardieu -
The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.
-- Gerolamo Cardano -
Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise.
-- Gijs de Vries -
Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.
-- Gil Hodges -
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
Know your strengths and take advantage of them....
-- Greg Norman -
One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.
-- Gustav Holst
