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Quotes About Margin

Pursuing a strategy in which it has explicitly told investors that it will sacrifice some margin to sustain strong growth, it doubles down on investments made to create a compelling result
~ Rita Gunther McGrath
Duffy was face to face with the margin of mystery where all our calculations collapse, where the stream of time dwindles into the sands of eternity, where the formula fails in the test tube, where chaos and old night hold sway and we hear the laughter in the ether dream.
~ Robert Penn Warren
Family life is by its nature cocooned, and expatriate family life doubly so. We had many friends and a few intimate ones, but it is in the nature of family rhythm—up too early, asleep too soon—to place you on a margin, and to the essential joy—just the three of us!—was added the essential loneliness, just the three of us.
~ Adam Gopnik
Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
~ Dodie Smith
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
Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation and reverted to chaos, existing only to themselves in an unstructured world where they were not formally acknowledged, becoming an ever-widening margin of undifferentiated and nameless matter surrounding the outposts of man, who no longer made himself familiar with these things or rendered the authentic in his experience by the gift of naming.
~ Angela Carter
by a long chalk BRITISH by far.
~ Angus Stevenson
In limited overs game, falling short by 15-20 runs matters a lot.
~ Ravindra Jadeja
Margin is having the pace and space in your day to allow real life to happen. Too many of us run at a pace that is not only unhealthy physically but damaging relationally. We go-go-go, telling ourselves there are just not enough hours in the day, when we really need to be slowing down and enjoying the journey just as much as we anticipate enjoying the destination when we arrive.
~ Jill Savage
The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.
~ Anne Fadiman
Somebody needs to cut their profit margin and contribute to making our sport safer.
~ Denny Hamlin
and was on the edge of the walk
~ Louis L'Amour
Low kerosene prices, a boon to consumers, were catastrophic for refiners, who saw the profit margin between crude- and refined-oil prices shrink to a vanishing point.
~ Ron Chernow
That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.
~ Shawn Johnson
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
Graham figured that always using the margin of safety principle when deciding whether to purchase shares of a business from a crazy partner like Mr. Market was the secret to making safe and reliable investment profits.
~ Joel Greenblatt
Ultimately, we've got to make sure our players understand that the margin for error is very small against these top teams in the world, and we've been punished several times for that.
~ Jill Ellis
Monza is special. It's a high-speed track that pushes the car to the limit: it may look easy but the margin for error when braking for the chicanes is very small and you end up paying heavily for every mistake.
~ Nico Hulkenberg
The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it.
~ Franz Kafka
When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.
~ Apolo Ohno
Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page.
~ Ameen Rihani
Textile mills are not a very high-margin business and have fixed overheads, so it was challenging. But I think it is only in challenges that you get opportunities.
~ Ajay Piramal
Capítulos compridos quadram melhor a leitores pesadões; e nós não somos um público in-fólio, mas in-12, pouco texto, larga margem, tipo elegante, corte dourado e vinhetas... principalmente vinhetas... Não, não alonguemos o capítulo.
~ Machado de Assis
A margin call is a demand for additional collateral from a customer who has borrowed money from his broker to buy stocks and whose stocks are now worth barely enough to cover the loan.
~ John Brooks