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Quotes About Leverage

If you can constantly just put pressure on all four quadrants, it gives you a little more leverage to be able to fill the zone up with breaking balls and fastball counts - or with breaking balls when guys are maybe sitting on the fastball that you've established.
~ Gerrit Cole
It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.
~ George Eliot
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
~ Archimedes
Don't fight forces; use them.
~ Buckminster Fuller
So it's a really sort of mixed issue but I think, no matter whether you're a Democrat or an independent or a Republican, the idea that a sitting president would attempt to leverage dirt on a political opponent from a foreign leader is just beyond the pale.
~ Elissa Slotkin
When fundraising, your network is critical. Leveraging it early and often is the key. Don't make the mistake of waiting until you need money to engage sources of capital.
~ David Cohen
I am drawing my inspiration from resource-constrained developed nations like Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Dubai in attracting global investments. Compared with them, Andhra Pradesh has more resources to leverage on.
~ N. Chandrababu Naidu
The effect of the leverage is that a small loss would be compounded and would wipe him out.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The dip in the market was not very large. It was just that his leverage was enormous.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
gives me some form of advantage.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it's denial. The debt crisis is not a temporary problem, it's a structural one. We need rehab.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Yet Catchings would in just ten years very nearly destroy the firm, proving once again that articulate optimists encouraged by early successes and armed with financial leverage can become hugely destructive.
~ Charles D. Ellis
The typical real estate purchase was far more leveraged than the stocks purchased on margin in the run up to the 1929 crash. Putting 5 percent down on a house means the other 95 percent is borrowed.
~ Charles Wheelan
I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
~ Dan Quinn
Paul Weyrich, who was a cofounder of the Heritage Foundation, gave a talk in 1980 where he laid out what would become the blueprint for GOP victory. He chastised the audience for believing in "Good Government" where they wanted "everybody to vote." "Well, I don't," he said, because "our leverage in the elections, quite candidly, goes up as the voting populace goes down.
~ Kevin M. Kruse
But highly leveraged economies, particularly those in which continual rollover of short-term debt is sustained only by confidence in relatively illiquid underlying assets, seldom survive forever, particularly if leverage continues to grow unchecked
~ Carmen M. Reinhart
Google after acquiring intimate knowledge of its technology may make a thousand-fold return over five to seven years. A firm such as Renaissance might make a thousand trades in a day harvesting the tiniest anomalies. With modest leverage and relentless twenty-four-hour trading around the globe,
~ George Gilder
As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
~ Bob Schaffer
A global economy that is levering up, while unable to generate enough aggregate demand to achieve potential growth, is on a risky path.
~ Michael Spence
The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Generally speaking, companies get into bankruptcy as a kind of meritocracy. Somebody made some sort of big mistake, to get into bankruptcy, and very often, a part of the mistake is too much leverage.
~ Wilbur Ross
Got what?" Pete Starling asked, over the video link. "Am I missing something?" "No," Dinah said. "We are just proceeding adaptively to leverage our core competencies.
~ Neal Stephenson
making provision for an uncertain future has taken the very simple form of an investment (usually leveraged, that is debt-financed) in a house
~ Niall Ferguson
To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.
~ la rochefoucauld iii