Quotes About Leverage

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.

People underestimate the power we have to make real change for animals; it's with our vote. Representatives may not care about animals, but they care about our vote and that is our leverage.

When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power.

Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.

you bought a single company, which applies excessive financial leverage, the risk of losses is very real, and you could lose your entire investment.

Risk of Financial Leverage This risk of loss increases exponentially when we add any form of financial leverage, i.e. borrowing money to invest.

que las personas nacen como nace una canción, que suena de pronto. No naces bajo un cálculo, sino en una cascada de accidentes y azares, lo que debería ayudarnos a vivir con mayor levedad y no lo contrario. Las raíces se convierten en algo primario, porque nos atornillan al mundo. Pero las raíces no dejan volar.

Knowledge management will never work until corporations realize it's not about how you capture knowledge but how you create and leverage it.

Let's leverage the power of the Web - don't get rid of it, but make the Web beautiful again. We need to give the content room to breathe and give magazine-style advertisements the opportunity to flourish.

I think the first contest I did, I was somewhere just over 300 pounds. With my frame, I needed to add more weight and put more muscle on to get better leverage and be more successful. Just to get stronger, really. I had to work really hard.

I love the idea of creators having leverage and control.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

Crisis creates leverage to change.

Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.

Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.

Give me an opportunity, I'm going to take advantage of those opportunities.

The way I look at it is I try to take advantage of every opportunity I've got.

Every opportunity I get, I just try to take advantage of it, embrace it and take everything in.

Tall pitchers create leverage and angle, often inducing more groundballs and sometimes swings and misses.

We're trying to be the top employer of recent grads in the country. Size gives us leverage to have a tangible impact on school systems.

Never appeal to a man's better nature. He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

Technology is never deterministic, and the fact that something can be done does not mean it must be done. Government regulation can successfully block new technologies even if they are commercially viable and economically lucrative.