Advantage Quotes

"A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage"

"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

"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"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

"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better"

William James, Philosopher

"That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again"

Judith Viorst, Author

"When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

"The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight"

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

"Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system"

Barack Obama, President

"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, First Lady

"A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant"

George Byron, Poet

"I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

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

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players"

Hakeem Olajuwon, Athlete

"It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them"

P. G. Wodehouse, Writer

"I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms"

James Madison, President

"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms"

James Madison, President

"I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me"

Bill Ford, Businessman

"The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective"

Manuel Puig, Author

"When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage"

Wilhelm Steinitz, Celebrity

"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions"

Alan Dundes, Educator

"If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete"

Jack Welch, Businessman

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

David Attenborough, Journalist

"The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

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