Quotes About Advantage

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.

Sometimes I might get in the door a little quicker than somebody else because of my last name. But if I'm not prepared, I'm not afforded the luxury of, 'Oh, he's a little green.' It's, 'He's not talented,' where the next guy can have a bad day.

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

Certain things which were happening in the industry needed to be corrected or stopped. There were a lot of people who were taking undue advantage and exploiting young talents.

Tall people have a real advantage in the world.

You see what I can use in my range, even with tall people, imagine what I could do to someone half my size.

People say McGregor is tall and all that. He's as tall as I am, or maybe even shorter. He might have a longer reach, but I've fought Nate Diaz and Cerrone, who had reach advantage, and fought Anthony Pettis and Ben Henderson.

Forwards are either too tall, and I'm too quick for them, or guards are too small, and I shoot over them.

I tend to do well against big 4s who are real skilled because I'm tall, lanky and athletic.

Regarding KERS, I have mixed feelings. As I am a tall and relatively heavy person I have disadvantages regarding the weight and consequently the weight distribution of the car. But on the other hand KERS could be a big advantage because of the boost.

It's basketball, man. It's being smart, using your size as an advantage. I can get into people. I can get into your stomach, so you can't back me down. I can stay in front of you, I can move my feet, I can be aggressive. People don't understand that it can be a disadvantage being tall, too.

The taller you are, the bigger your serve.

I was always taller than everybody else.

McGregor is a huge 145-pounder with long reach and is taller than his opponents - and that's something that I've always wanted.

Rose had some openings that I could fit my game in. Even though she was taller than me and had a longer reach, I was stronger in short distance, my strikes connect better.

I've always been the tallest guy in my age group, which always made me go right down in the post.

When it comes to developing and maintaining a competitive advantage for your business, there is no question in my mind that you're going to need to incorporate both data science and business intelligence together in order to survive the future hyper-competitive environment. If you are not doing so, I can guarantee that your competitors will be doing it.

The winners are the schemers and the ruthless who take what they want, not the suckers standing around hoping for an even break.

This just goes to show that if you want to succeed in this world you don't have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier.

God often delights to take advantage of our averseness, that he may manifest his work the more clearly, and that all the glory of the work may be his, as all the strength is his.

Watch it." he said at last. "I can make your life miserable." I gave him an icy smile. "You already have, and that's why i've got the advantage. You've done your worst but you haven't seen what i can do yet.

hypercompetition" to characterize markets in which a firm's competitive advantage would be quickly competed away.8

Without the assumption that an advantage will be long-lived, the urgency of an organization to move quickly increases.

don't always get it right—in fact, if my ideas about temporary advantage and learning from failure apply, it's almost impossible for a company to call it correctly every time.