Advantage Quotes
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Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
William Lyon Mackenzie
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Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.
Walter Wriston
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A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.
Honore de Balzac
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Microsoft is pleased that customers using SMS 2003, including our recently announced SMS 2003 R2, can take advantage of the new capabilities delivered through Intel AMT and Intel's Professional Business Platform via the Intel-developed add-on software for SMS. This enables customers to better manage their environments and computing infrastructures by reducing many challenges they face today. Similarly, Microsoft is increasing its investments in the Microsoft System Center family of products to address resource optimization and virtual machine life-cycle management so customers can manage their physical and virtualized environments from one toolset.
Bob Muglia
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We need to try to regain some home-court advantage.
Phil Jackson
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If your legs are strong it definitely gives you an advantage coming down hill. As far as specific workouts go, I get a kick out of sled pulls and driving the sled. I put a couple of 45 pound weights on it and just go until I can't feel my VMO muscles (Vastus Medialis Oblique.) That's the muscle right next to your knee, on the inside.
Brandon Spikes
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But, there is another effect that stems from restricting the accumulation of inventory. It makes it very visible to spot the real problems that jeopardize the flow—when one work center in a line stops producing for more than a short while, soon the whole line stops. Ford took advantage of the resulting clear visibility to better balance the flow by addressing and eliminating the apparent stoppages.4 The end result of abolishing local efficiencies and balancing the flow is a substantial increase in throughput. Henry Ford achieved the highest throughput per worker of any car manufacturing company of his time.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.
Ringo Starr The Beatles
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Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
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The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship, and they have taken advantage of our neglect to seize the reins of government.
George Monbiot
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From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.
James G. Frazer
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Too much success is not an advantage. Do not tinkle like jade Or clatter like stone chimes.
Lao Tzu
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The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.
William E. Simon
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The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What frightens me and worries me is that these weeks are taken advantage of for the purpose of conflict rather than for consolidation.
Javier Solana
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I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.
John Tukey
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The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
Richard Rogers
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One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.
Jon Bon Jovi
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There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.
Emanuel Lasker
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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
Nancy Mitford
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Men, however, shouldn't despair. They are excellent at identifying and imitating animal sounds, which would have been a significant advantage for the ancient hunter. Sadly, that's not quite as much use today.
Barbara Pease