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All I ask for is an unfair advantage. Hank Greenberg, CEO Marsh & McLennnan
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you had. The Great Gatsby 1974 starring & Robert Redford & Mia Farrow & Bruce Dern & Sam Waterston & Karen Black & Scott Wilson & Lois Chiles & Edward Herrmann & Howard da Silva & Kathryn Leigh Scott & Regina Baff et al, director Jack Clayton, opening commentary
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. Jack Welch
If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. Jack Welch
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. Jim Rohn
My parents didn’t believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others. Naveen Jain
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. Thomas Jefferson
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. Niccolo Machiavelli
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. Napoleon Bonaparte
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. James Madison
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. Oscar Wilde
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. Graham Greene
It’s about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we’re in a position where you call somebody and they’re willing to pick up and take the call because they’re a fan, you have to take advantage of that and have a chance to capitalize on your ideas. Dwyane Wade
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it ... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. Samuel Goldwyn
Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are. Werner Herzog
It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all. Henry David Thoreau
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else. Noam Chomsky
The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation. James Monroe
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don’t get much else in that job. Thomas P O’Neill
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. George Bernard Shaw
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. (Advantage & War) Napoleon Hill
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. Thomas Paine
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. Benjamin Disraeli
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant. Lord Byron
I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary. Madeleine Albright
I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999. Lance Armstrong
If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune. Sun Tzu, The Art of War
I can’t prove it, but I’m pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can’t prove. Randolph M Nesse
No, monsieur. Because you are a great lord you think you a great genius! Nobility, rank, position, fortune – how proud they make a man feel! What have you done to deserve such advantages? Pierre Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro
Advantage is a better soldier than rashness. William Shakespeare, Henry V III vi 121-122, Mountjoy to King Harry and court
The UK has a postcode inequality problem. Where you live can determine your chances in life. Health, wealth, transport … The government is on a mission to what it calls Level Up the UK. (Advantage & Inequality & Poverty) Panorama: Fixing Unfair Britain: Can Levelling Up Deliver? BBC 2022
Bruce Chatwin was a legendary adventurer and writer who died in 1989. Filmmaker Werner Herzog collaborated with Chatwin in the last years of his life. Werner Herzog, Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, captions, BBC 2022
Chatwin was a writer like no other: he would craft mythical tales into voyages of the mind. ibid.
Bruce Chatwin had a deep fascination for pre-history. ibid.