Top 278 Margins Quotes & Sayings

How capable are we of bringing about authentic change if we don't have voices from the margins?

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

Every time I started a business and the people told me I was an idiot, I ended up making a lot of money. Si Redd used to say me, "Boy, you gotta be where they ain't." What that means is that you find areas of low competition because high competition means lower margins, and lower margins mean less profit. So we were always looking for places where we can be unique. If the thinking is out-of-the-box, people may not understand because they have not seen it before... Therefore you are an idiot.

Every time I have fought elections, I have improved my victory margins.

My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls.

When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that made extraordinary margins. It's now a very good business with appropriate margins.

When interest rates are coming down, you cannot have high margins.

How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to the top of the market, you're getting rid of the less profitable products at the low end and adding business with more attractive margins at the high end. The rate of unit volume growth might be tapering off as you pursue these smaller markets, but your margins actually look better. So Wall Street rewards your stock price until you hit the ceiling.

I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.

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

I was quite intrigued by the idea of following the exploits of people who are often in the margins.

I don't think there is anything as powerful as an active heart. They do not fear the wisdom of emotion, but embody it. They know how to listen. They are polite when they need to be and unyielding when necessary. They remain open, even as they push boundaries and inhabit the margins, understanding eventually, the margins will move toward the center. They are tenacious, informed, patient, and impatient, at once. They do not shy away from what is difficult. They refuse to accept the unacceptable. The most effective activists I know are in love with the world.

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

Everyone can play well. There's very few margins that set us aside from each other.

'It could be better' is the only thing that anyone should write in the margins of their own script.

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.

The films, the music, the telly that I like is always a little bit more on the margins.

Trans folk are so often pushed to the margins and not afforded the resources and opportunities that some nontrans people are.

I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.

All too often, I'm sorry to say, I relegated my family to the cracks and margins.

It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.

I work in the margins. The margins are where you'll find the nice people. You'll find real friends. You'll find honesty. You'll find integrity. You'll find relationships that will last you for a lifetime and will be there to support you in the bad times, which are the only relationships that matter anyway. Relationships that are all about power and money aren't worth having.

The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over to the voices of the individuals. Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance. Part of the identity of a place is the tension between those in the margins, and those in the center, and they all live behind the walls which wear the tradition.

Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism. If high profits do not attract competition, there is something wrong with the system and it is not functioning properly.

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.

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

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

Look for companies with high profit margins.

The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

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

When times are tough, we tend to outperform as margins increase.

I don't think profit margins are great when you're giving away free tickets!

I value what I learned from being cast in the margins and what that felt like.

A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

Lawmakers must stand up for companies that choose public safety over profit margins.

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

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper

I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.

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

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

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

Back in the '60s and '70s, data were scarce, and while analysts knew that companies with fat gross margins lagged those with thin gross margins early in bull markets - and overachieved in the later phases - they couldn't do much about it.

Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.

Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

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

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

Football is decided on fine margins.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

It's true that in tennis sometimes the margins are very thin.

As a shareholder I have expressed my frustration with not getting more information about revenue and margins from the cloud.

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.

We care about margins.

One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.

Our business is strong and enjoys high margins.

The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.