Advantage Quotes

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

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.

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them

The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage.

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.

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.)

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

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.

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.

I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

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

Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.

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

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

Those who are passionate about what they do have an advantage that is nearly impossible to overcome. In passion there is energy, creativity, resilience and persistence. Passion will get it done.

AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.

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

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.

I've been given an opportunity right now and I'm going to run through a wall to try to take advantage of it.

The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established for the common good of all.