Margins Quotes

Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way.

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

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

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

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

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.