Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
W. Clement Stone

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Ronald Reagan

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

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain

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

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Benjamin Franklin

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin

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

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
Sun Tzu

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Henry David Thoreau

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
Henry David Thoreau

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
George Bernard Shaw

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar Wilde

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

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