Advantage Quotes: Wisdom and Inspiration for Success

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them"

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

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage"

April Winchell, Actress

"Every disadvantage has its advantage"

Johan Cruijff, Athlete

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage"

Jack Welch, Businessman

"The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage"

Chaim Potok, Author

"In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent"

George Canning, Statesman

"To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

"I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation"

Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist

"Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure"

Robert C. Solomon, Educator

"His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day"

Mary Antin, Activist

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read"

Mark Twain, Author

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

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

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

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology"

Ronald Reagan, President

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

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?"

George Orwell, Author

"My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

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