Quotes About Advantage

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.

If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income.

Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

Now that everyone is reinventing and innovating, advantage goes to those who keep at it. We need to greet even success with humility.

the ladies of Italy have this advantage over those of France, that they are faithful even in their infidelity.

les Italiennes ont du moins sur les Françaises l'avantage d'être fidèles à leur infidélité.

Democratic institutions awaken and foster a passion for equality which they can never entirely satisfy. This complete equality eludes the grasp of the people at the very moment they think they have grasped it . . . the people are excited in the pursuit of an advantage, which is more precious because it is not sufficiently remote to be unknown or sufficiently near to be enjoyed.

Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage.

POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Hypocrite, n. One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property.

HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another—the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.

The sad truth is that pretty people can slide through all kinds of scrapes that'd end very badly for the ugly.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.

In short, companies that achieve a high return on capital are likely to have a special advantage of some kind. That special advantage keeps competitors from destroying the ability to earn above-average profits.