#advantage

One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me. ↗

— Bill Ford

#being #believe #ceos #close #companies

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#day #every #every day #felicity #fortune

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#advantage #been #being #believed #doctor

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#comparable #countries #disadvantages #face #far

When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#damage #disorder #encourage #encouraging #gained

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#advantages #although #been #case #contrary

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#among #choose #disadvantages #govern

The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well. ↗

— Frank Lampard

#any #because #crowd #does #home

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#believe #capitalist #disadvantageous #forces #him

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#beater #conducts #improvement #more #musician