"Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think."
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"The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are."
"Mr. Market's job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to."
"The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing."
"Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words."
"There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain."
"I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them."
"The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor."
"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards."
"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
"There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified."
"Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it."
"[In picking stocks] You really have to know a lot about business. You have to know a lot about competitive advantage. You have to know a lot about the maintainability of competitive advantage. You have to have a mind that quantifies things in terms of value. And you have to be able to compare those values with other values available in the stock market."
"Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger."
"I want to take advantage of any popularity I have."
"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money."
"Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence."
"If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen."
"Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession."
"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places."