Advantage Quotes

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

But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

When they talk about raising your taxes, I think raise the taxes on some of these countries that are taking advantage of the United States.

Other people have to understand where we are coming from, including our allies. Our allies have taken advantage of us.

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.

Some comedians change their style, often to their advantage; but I see no reason why I can't continue with the "urbane sophisticate" 'til the day I die.

Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else.

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.

...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.

We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.

Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it really helps you have an advantage as a small and nimble company.

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

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.

The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.

I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.

This country provides opportunities. If you don't take advantage of them, it's your own fault.

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.

Each of us can, by ploy or gambit, most naturally gain the advantage.

The advantage of online banking is that you can pay bills superfast, and your account is automatically credited or debited for each deposit and payment, making it easier to stay on track.

I can still feel you, Eva. Still taste you. I’ve been hard since you left, through two meetings and one teleconference. You’ve got the advantage, state your demands.

All religions proclaim the advantages of peace, loving one another, and "doing to others what we would like them to do to us."

The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.

Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it.

I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing

Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.

The power which is in you, is in the things around you, and when you begin to move forward by faith, the things will arrange themselves for your advantage.

We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.

It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.

Take all the swift advantage of the hours.

Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.

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

Smiling can be a competitive advantage. It makes everyone feel better and every situation brighter.

Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

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.

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.