Margins Quotes - Page 5

• Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

  Novak Djokovic

  Dream, Support, Poverty

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• I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

  James Baker

  Presidential, Election, Frustrating

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• My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t fallen into the fatal folly of reading anything I could lay hands on. With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Reading, Ignorance, Self Confidence

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• A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

  Luis Bunuel

  Essentials, Alive, World

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• By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters In a dream of love melted away.

  Charles Dance

  Daughter, Dream, Heart

  Charles Dance (1833). “The Beulah spa: a burletta in two acts”, p.35

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• Due to Multi-Tenancy our gross margin by over 70%.

  Zach Nelson

  Gross, Dues

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• Does the ‘Paranormal’ lie within the margins between the ‘Metacosm’ [a larger reality beyond the macro/microcosms consisting of 10 dimensions or more] and the virtual reality established by the digital simulation?

  Chuck Missler

  Lying, Reality, Doe

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• Every time I write these words they become a taboo,
  Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true,
  Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Writing, Curves

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• Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety.

  Peter Cundill

  Safety, Worry, Insightful

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• I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it. It's not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with you life that you want to be the world's lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close.

  Bob Hoover

  Inspirational, Life, Airplane

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• It’s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

  Yuri Milner

  Fundamentals, Lines, Digital

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• One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

  "Post-crash, investing in a better world". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2009.

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beautiful, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

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• Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.

  Micere Githae Mugo

  Writing, Growth, Brilliant

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• It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ideas, Missing, Conservative

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• Not yet have I found any better method to prosper during the future financial chaos, which is likely to last many years, than to keep your net worth in shares of those corporations that have proven to have the widest profit margins and the most rapidly increasing profits. Earning power is likely to continue to be valuable, especially if diversified among many nations.

  John Templeton

  Years, Profit Margin, Corporations

  "Sir John Templeton: Financial Chaos and Investing" by Janet Tavakoli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2010.

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• So one way to create an attractive risk/reward situation is to limit downside risk severely by investing in situations that have a large margin of safety. The upside, while still difficult to quantify, will usually take care of itself. In other words, look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Safety, Decision, Risk

  Joel Greenblatt (2010). “You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market P”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.

  Michael Porter

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value" by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2011.

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• The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Motivation, Moving, Inspiration

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• I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books.

  Laini Taylor

  Beautiful, Stars, Book

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• We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business.

  Peter Cundill

  Safety, Worry, Balance

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• The difference between the price we pay for a stock and its liquidation value gives us a margin of safety. This kind of investing is one of the most effective ways of achieving good long term results.

  Peter Cundill

  Differences, Long, Safety

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• Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

  Growing, Bahrain, Steps

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• Chris Christie won by such a wide margin that pundits say this will give him the impetus he needs to run for president. And he's got a new slogan: 'Put the oval in the Oval Office.'

  Jay Leno

  Running, Giving, Office

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• Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.

  Bill Gross

  Order, Safety, Trying

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