Quotes About Advantage

A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.

Cultures are mental parasites that emerge accidentally, and thereafter take advantage of all people infected by them.

The main handicap of authoritarian regimes in the twentieth century - the attempt to concentrate all information in one place - might become their decisive advantage in the twenty-first cenutry.

The playing field of life is not level, and for you to compete in the game of life, you need an equalizer of some kind. In the old West, the equalizer was the six-shooter. It enabled a little guy to chop a bigger man down to size. Desire is also an equalizer--and nowadays is highly encouraged over a six-shooter!

Opportunity is like a door; it is always open, but you have to be prepared to enter through it.

It was hard to accept that the first man in my life would do things that were to my disadvantage if they were to his advantage. Yet it was a revelation that somehow set me free.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots -- suspicion.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Be proud of your strengths, yet focus on your weaknesses, especially on improving them to your advantage. Never forget that a chain is always as strong as its weakest link.

Past experience, no matter how vast or varied, cannot be the guarantee of future best performance. Experience, in my view, is often a double-edged sword that sometimes works in your favor, and many a times against. You must use experience and expertise smartly to your advantage, and never fall prey to 'Been there, done that' attitude.

if Whiteness, as unearned privilege and advantage, is predicated on White supremacy and the oppression of people of color and if Whites benefit from it, then a frightening conclusion must be drawn: Whites have a stake in racism and to be White is to benefit from racism (Wise, 2002). Little wonder then that race talk is threatening and that many Whites avoid it in order not to reach this conclusion.

Most Whites would entertain the notion that being a person of color in this society subjects them to second-class citizenship. Yet it is intriguing that most White Americans would actively deny that they are advantaged automatically by this state of affairs.

If you accept the concept of White privilege, then you must entertain the more realistic notion that many Whites did not succeed because of superior ability, but due to favoritism.

There is a triple purpose to the existence of White privilege: (1) to advantage White Americans, (2) to disadvantage persons of color, and (3) to attribute causes to individual deficiencies, thereby relieving White society of responsibility for perpetuating inequality.

These organizational policies and practices may appear neutral and nondiscriminatory in nature because they are applied to everyone equally, but their effects are to disadvantage certain groups while advantaging others.

In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

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

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.