Top 308 Margin Quotes & Sayings

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety.

What investors want is growth, margin, and cash.

The margin is very marginal.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.

I have to live up to my expectations - which is to break all the records that I can, dominate by a wide margin.

Define a winning proposition that is consumer right and delivers margin accretion.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

As a whole, [changing] is deflation force that is being underestimated. Whether each person thinks of it in the context of the word deflation ... what they think of it is, "Hard to hold my margin. I'm under margin pressure. I'm under sales pressure. I'm under cost pressure."

If something's a high-margin product, I understand its importance to the store.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.

Margin is a customer concept.

The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.

Due to Multi-Tenancy our gross margin by over 70%.

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

Even with a margin of safety in the investor's favor, an individual security may work out badly. For the margin guarantees only that he has a better chance for profit than for loss - not that loss is impossible. But as the number of such commitments is increased the more certain does it become that the aggregate of the profits will exceed the aggregate of the losses.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin

To have a true investment, there must be a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience.

Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.

As much as you love to finish games and all that kind of stuff, at the same time as a starting pitcher you hate to come out of a game where your closer has no margin for error, ... So at least with one guy on, Braden's got a little margin to make a mistake.

Edge also implies what Ben Graham....called a margin of safety. You have a margin of safety when you buy an asset at a price that is substantially less than its value. As Graham noted, the margin of safety 'is available for absorbing the effect of miscalculations or worse than average luck.' ...Graham expands, "The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price."

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

There is a bit of a problem with the match between derivative securities markets and the primary markets. We have long ago instituted principles, essentially high margin requirements, to prevent certain instabilities in the stock market, and I think they're basically correct. The trouble is that there's a linkage, let's say, between something like the stock market and the index futures markets, and the fact that the margin requirements are very different, for example, played some role in the October '87 crash.

WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.

By a considerable margin, my family's largest-ever financial expenditure was the adoption of our two sons.

Your margin is my opportunity.

I love the broad margin to my life.

When you run on something definitive and then win by a significant margin, you have a mandate.

I mean, [Donald Trump] won by a sizable margin.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.

Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.

The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.

I hate big shots of adrenaline. It means you don't have enough margin.

We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business.

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)

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.

The margin for error in the Champions League is tiny.

Whenever you're in a show that has a lot of special effects, there is a large margin for error.

I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

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.

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

In the restaurant business, you learn quickly there's no margin in having enemies.

Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety.

The margin between winning and losing is slim.

At the highest level, you are playing the best from an opposing country, so the margin of error is very little.

By a 2-1 margin, voters believe that Donald Trump would change business as usual in Washington, but by almost as large a margin, they believe that Hillary Clinton would be better in a crisis and less of a decisive margin she cares about people like them.

A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.

Somebody needs to cut their profit margin and contribute to making our sport safer.

It's a slim margin of error in this league.

There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.