Advantage Quotes

"I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do"

Joan Jett, Musician

"A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage"

Hesiod, Poet

"While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

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

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

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

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

"The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things"

Larry Dixon

"No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway"

William Bernbach, Businessman

"There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs"

William Bligh, Soldier

"It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff"

Rick Renzi, Politician

"Terrorists always have the advantage of surprise"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established"

Algernon Sidney, Politician

"Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent"

Dan Marino, Athlete

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

William Bernbach, Businessman

"And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really"

Rick Moranis, Actor

"Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that"

Layne Staley, Musician

"The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent"

Joseph Hume, Scientist

"The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation"

James Monroe, President

"I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him"

Ed Harris, Actor

"As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt"

John Desmond Bernal, Scientist

"A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity"

George Soros, Businessman

"While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"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

"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

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

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"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"

Howard Staunton, Celebrity

"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"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"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"We're not murderers. We're just businessmen who take advantage of opportunities"

Meyer Lansky, Criminal

"Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school"

Gwen Moore, Politician

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