Margins Quotes - Page 14

• With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Self Confidence, Balance, Should

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.86, Princeton University Press

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• I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.

  Tamara de Lempicka

  Live Life, Normal, Fringe

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• I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work.

  Nancy Spero

  Book, School, Math

  "Art as a Continuum". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.

  Gabe Newell

  Thinking, People, Alternatives

  "Gabe Newell: "Windows 8 Is Kind Of A Catastrophe" By Dan Crabtree, www.ign.com. July 25, 2012.

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• The Euro is a conquest of sovereignty. It gives us a margin of manoeuvre. Its a tool to help us master globalisation and help us resist irrational shifts in the market.

  Dominique Strauss-Kahn

  Giving, Tools, Helping

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• In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Couple, Order

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• I think one of the things people don't understand is we can build more shareholder value by lowering product prices than we can by trying to raise margins. It's a more patient approach, but we think it leads to a stronger, healthier company. It also serves customers much, much better.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Thinking, People

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• If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.

  Warren Buffett

  Safety, Needs, Littles

  Speech at Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting in 1997. "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett" by Andrew Kilpatrick, Volume 2, p. 1615, 2007.

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• As a matter of fact I trade in accordance to my means and always leave myself an ample margin of safety.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Mean, Safety, Matter

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.203, John Wiley & Sons

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• Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that.  So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.

  Jeff Bezos

  Cash Flow, Dollars, Want

  "Jeff Bezos on Leading for the Long-Term at Amazon". "HBR IdeaCast" with Adi Ignatius, hbr.org.

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• There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)

  Harvey Pekar

  Stupid, Math, Intelligent

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• Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

  Dale Jamieson

  Ethics, Behavior

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin "helping' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.

  Gerda Lerner

  Men, Doe, World

  "Why Women’s History Month" by Ruth Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2014.

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• Politics was not just about winning the election, it was about winning decisively--having the momentum to carry out one's vision. Historically, any president who squeaked into office on a narrow margin accomplished much less; he was weakened right out of the gate, and Congress never seemed to let him forget it.

  Dan Brown

  Winning, Office, Vision

  Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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• Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.

  John Gay

  Fishing, Rivers, Lakes

  John Gay (1770). “The works of Mr. John Gay: In four volumes. To which is added an account of the life and writings of the author ...”, p.27

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• I was starting to recognize a corner I was driving myself into: that all writing could do was refer to things that had already been written. I'm making the margin, but the margin of a book that already exists. I was having this exhilaration at, but at the same time horror of this recognition that I'd driven myself into the world of only books. This is a world of the previously written, and maybe I don't have to add to it, maybe all I can do is measure it.

  Vito Acconci

  Book, Writing, Exhilaration

  "A Conversation with Vito Acconci". Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers.

  Barbara Hurd

  Memories, May, Becoming

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• I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.

  Greg Boyle

  Laughing, Want, Prophetic

  "Priest Fights Gangs With 'Boundless Compassion'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 20, 2010.

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• High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power to do many things. It has no margin for error and less margin for additional risk.

  Franco Modigliani

  Errors, Safety, Risk

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• As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

  Plutarch

  Lying, Desert, World

  Parallel Lives "Aemilius Paulus" sec. 5

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• I think I appeal to people who are living in the margins because of their identity and who need to feel freedom somewhere.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, People, Identity

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart and thoughts, that she cannot ... meet them all and find any large margin beyond for other cares and work. She serves the community in the very best and highest way it is possible to do, by giving birth to healthy children, whose physical strength has not been defrauded, and to whose moral and mental nature she can give the whole of her thoughts.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or
  thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin of error was high in
  a forecasting model that I might put together. Now I view it as perhaps the
  single most important piece of information that a forecaster provides. When
  we publish a forecast on FiveThirtyEight, I go to great lengths to document
  the uncertainty attached to it, even if the uncertainty is sufficiently
  large that the forecast won't make for punchy headlines.

  Nate Silver

  Views, Errors, Annoyed

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• There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sacrifice, Hands, Moments

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.175

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• I don't think that the world will ever become an unpoliced place, sadly. But I do feel that there is relative freedom on the margins.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Thinking, World, Feels

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 1, 2011.

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