A Quote by Ovid

A pleasing face is no small advantage. — © Ovid
A pleasing face is no small advantage.

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Social media can work to a CEO's advantage. Someone with a great product in a small town in the middle of nowhere can compete in the world marketplace. In 1962, Sam Walton changed the face of retailing with Wal-Mart. As we speak, Amazon is again changing the face of retail with on-line buying.
In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.
A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.
I have this A-line figure. It starts with my face being small and increases as it goes down. Actually South Indians have this problem. Small face. Big hips.
Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.
There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.
With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane.
Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.
The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.
I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
The only thing you can worry about is pleasing yourself and that's probably more impossible than pleasing other people.
I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?
A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.
I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.
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