Advantage Quotes

"Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large"

Martin Van Buren, President

"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield"

Quintilian, Educator

"The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic"

Robert Toombs, Politician

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

Layne Staley, Musician

"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

"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

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"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

"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"

Louis Nizer, Lawyer

"What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"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

"People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"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

"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

"I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

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

James Monroe, President

"The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"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

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