Quotes About Advantage

Anger and emotion are strategically counterproductive. You must always stay calm and objective. But if you can make your enemies angry while staying calm yourself, you gain a decided advantage. Put your enemies off-balance: Find the chink in their vanity through which you can rattle them and you hold the strings.

People who accuse you of being unfair, for example, who try to make you feel guilty, who talk about justice and morality, are trying to gain an advantage on the chessboard.

The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it's all done in secrecy, or if not, they try to make it seem as if they're doing something other than what they are.

Times are, you seize the advantage and ride on," Bashere growled. "Other times, you take your winnings and go home. I say it's time to go home." I would not mind you in my head, Lews Therin said, sounding almost sane, if you were not so clearly mad.

Often overlooked in the United States is that while we have many allies, Russia and China have none, only clients, giving the United States a unique advantage.

There is no great happiness without great taboos. Even in business, to pursue one's advantage at all costs is to risk getting nowhere. Keeping within one's limits is the secret of all phenomena, of power, happiness, faith, and the key to the task of maintaining oneself as a tiny human creature within the universe.

Tra gli uomini, i freddi calcolatori non hanno nella vita nemmeno la metà del successo dei temperamenti equilibrati, che provano davvero un profondo attaccamento per le persone e le relazioni che recano loro vantaggio

On the contrary, Mr. Wiggin. The tax laws are designed to trick people into paying more than they have to. That way the rich who are in the know get to take advantage of drastic tax breaks, while those who don't have such good connections and haven't yet found an accountant who does are tricked into paying ludicrously higher amounts. I, however, know all the tricks.

Use them in your favor, not against you.

Networks are powerful forms of leverage.

It's all a matter of leverage.

They will invest in companies and real estate projects that the average person will hear about only after the profits have been made.

Because everyone on the Fast Track already has plenty of money. That is why money no longer counts. In order to get into the better investments on the Fast Track, what counts is what you know or who you know.

reactions and think. That is important. We will always have emotions of fear and greed. From here on in, it's imperative for you to use those emotions to your advantage, and for the long term to not let your emotions control your thinking.

Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code which allows a seller to delay paying taxes on a piece of real estate that is sold for a capital gain through an exchange for a more expensive piece of real estate. Real estate is one investment vehicle that has a great tax advantage. As long as you keep trading up in value, you will not be taxed on the gains until you liquidate.

the rich saw an opportunity because they don't play by the same set of rules.

No matter what the "take-from-the-rich" crowd came up with, the rich always found a way to outsmart them.

Never interrupt when you're winning.

Never argue when you're winning. (Crimson Death)

knew enough to use their blindness to our advantage.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

Will America lead...and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.