Margins Quotes - Page 10

• In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

  James Geary

  Lying, Errors, Rooms

  "On Originality". Blog Post, jamesgeary.com. June 22, 2007.

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• Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Men, Long, World

  Immanuel Wallerstein (1979). “The Capitalist World-Economy”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• A new poll says that if the election were held today, both John Kerry and John Edwards would beat President Bush by double digit margins. The White House is so worried about this, they're now thinking of moving up the capture of Osama Bin Laden to next month.

  Jay Leno

  Moving, Thinking, White

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• There'd been studies over the years supporting the proposition that groups composed exclusively of women usually made intelligent decisions, that exclusively male groups did a bit less well, and that mixed groups did most poorly of all, by a substantial margin. It appeared that, when women were present, testosterone got the upper hand and men took greater risks than they might otherwise. Correspondingly, women in the mixed group tended to revert to roles, becoming more passive, and going along with whatever misjudgment the males might perpetrate.

  Jack McDevitt

  Intelligent, Men, Hands

  Jack McDevitt (2003). “Chindi”, p.463, Penguin

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• Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

  Barry Eisler

  Transition, World, Paper

  "Paper Earthworks and Digital Tides" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• One man in one mood will attack Industrial Capitalism for its destruction of beauty; another for its incompetence; another for the vileness of the men who chiefly prosper under it; another for its mere confusion and noise; another for its false values; it was until recently most fiercely attacked for its impoverishment of the workers, its margin of unemployment and the rest - indeed so fiercely that it was compelled to seek palliatives for the evil. With a mass of men it was attacked from a vague but strong sense of injustice; it allowed a few rich to exploit mankind.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Strong, Men, Evil

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• Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.

  Arnold Haultain

  Golf, Winning, Order

  Arnold Haultain (1912). “The Mystery of Golf”

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• When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Responsibility, Drug, Trials

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• To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Destiny, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (195?). “The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in one volume: including the poems, philosophic and inspirational essays, and biographical studies”

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• Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.

  May Sarton

  Giving, Able, Wealth

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Blood, Order

  Philip Massinger (1805). “The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford”, p.413

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• Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in, and the more we live and know of our own souls and of spiritual experience generally, the more we shall be convinced that we have to do with one who is good and just.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  God, Spiritual, Giving

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.354

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• Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Distance, Names, Always Trying

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• Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.

  Ronan Farrow

  Errors, Government, Office

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• The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isnt so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.

  Zong Qinghou

  Profit Margin, Limits, Mature

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• I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.

  Martin Firrell

  Art, Believe, Everyday

  International Herald Tribune, September 19, 2005.

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• A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

  Martha Ostenso

  Shapes, Sickness, Illness

  Martha Ostenso (1938). “The Mandrake Root”

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• Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

  Margaret M. Lock

  Self, Life And Death, Disputes

  Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls.

  Gunter Brus

  Visuals

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Father, Illiterate, Models

  "Depardieu family values" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2003.

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• The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)

  Tom Robbins

  Suicide, Adventure, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.112, Bantam

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• The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE's diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver top-line growth, increased margins and strong cash generation.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Strong, Growth

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• Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism. If high profits do not attract competition, there is something wrong with the system and it is not functioning properly.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Mean, Competition, Gone

  "Warren Buffett And Jeremy Grantham Are Right About Profit Margins" by Baijnath Ramraika and Prashant Trivedi, www.advisorperspectives.com. November 11, 2014.

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• The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the old city lay red before them, as their walk drew to a close. The moaning water cast its seaweed duskily at their feet, when they turned to leave its margin; and the rooks hovered above them with hoarse cries, darker splashes in the darkening air.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Air, Cities

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”, p.103

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• After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea

  Ernest Shackleton

  Sea, British, Expeditions

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