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I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie. -- J. C. Chandor
As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness. -- J. C. Chandor
The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety. -- Warren Buffett
Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety. -- Benjamin Graham
Margins on other sales and revenues grew as a result of the growth in extended service plan revenues, which have no associated cost of sales, and the growth in our service margin, reflecting improved overhead expense absorption. -- Austin Ligon
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small. -- Donald Rumsfeld
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. -- George Ryan
Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected. -- Arnold Bennett
I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error? -- Lincoln Chafee
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. -- Vinod Khosla
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Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006. -- Elliott Abrams
Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. -- Karen Armstrong
I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin. -- Elizabeth Warren
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. -- Henry David Thoreau
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. -- Pierre de Fermat
But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it. -- Pierre de Fermat
In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good. -- Pope Francis
The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in between where the price is right. I have found this to be true to this day whether dealing in paper hats, winter underwear or hotels. -- Conrad Hilton
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I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory. -- Bill Richardson
We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment. -- Zac Goldsmith
Reviewers have called my books 'novels in verse.' I think of them as written in prose, but I do use stanzas. Stanza means 'room' in Latin, and I wanted there to be 'room' - breathing opportunities to receive thoughts and have time to come out of them before starting again at the left margin. -- Virginia Euwer Wolff
There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion. -- Louis Navellier
I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that I received from the electorate, I am committed to operating in the framework of moderation, which calls inter alia for a balance between realism and the pursuit of the ideals of the Islamic Republic of Iran. -- Hassan Rouhani
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income. -- P. T. Barnum
I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective. -- Stephen Harper
The margin is very marginal. -- Bobby Robson
Your margin is my opportunity. -- Jeff Bezos
The margin between success and drama is fractional. -- Jacky Ickx
I love the broad margin to my life. -- Henry David Thoreau
Due to Multi-Tenancy our gross margin by over 70%. -- Zach Nelson
The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. -- John F. Kennedy
Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety. -- Peter Cundill
I mean, [Donald Trump] won by a sizable margin. -- Rudy Giuliani
Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself. -- Hugh Reginald Haweis
In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver. -- James Geary
The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent. -- Calvin Trillin
Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim. -- Christine Baranski
Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation. -- Barry Ritholtz
Traditional media brand advertising is 65% to 70% spend; online, it's like 28%. You've got a huge margin. -- Ross Levinsohn
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. -- Henry David Thoreau
I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement... -- Virginia Woolf
We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care. -- Steven Burd
I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. -- Steig Larsson
That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen. -- Shawn Johnson
My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society. -- Gerard Depardieu
Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you. -- Dodie Smith
We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business. -- Peter Cundill
There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification. -- Benjamin Graham
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. -- Luis Bunuel
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain. -- Pierre de Fermat
Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give. -- May Sarton
The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future. -- Benjamin Graham
Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast. -- John Green
Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence. -- Rabindranath Tagore
In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks. -- Ron Chernow
As a matter of fact I trade in accordance to my means and always leave myself an ample margin of safety. -- Edwin Lefevre
You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier. -- Mara Liasson
I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin -- Nas
A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage. -- David Rolf
Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting. -- Charlie Munger
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
The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision ends. -- Yvor Winters
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug. -- Anthony S. Fauci
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. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Theres a little more margin for error this year. Last year, it felt like we had to win every game. That wasnt a lot of fun. -- Lance Berkman
Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from. -- Clayton Christensen
I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world. -- Geena Davis
Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from. -- Clayton Christensen
Young people voted [on Brexit] to remain by a considerable margin, but were outvoted. They were voting for their future, yet it has been taken from them. -- Tim Farron
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) -- Tom Robbins
I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page. -- Graham Swift
Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or minus the facts. -- Stephen Colbert
It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency. -- Russ Feingold
I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move. -- Homer
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. -- Benjamin Graham
Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud. -- William Butler Yeats
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
I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin. -- Roger Bannister
By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters In a dream of love melted away. -- Charles Dance
Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin. -- Elliot Richardson
While I do not believe Ford was wrong to pardon Nixon, the timing of the pardon was premature and may have cost Ford the margin of victory in the 1976 election. -- Richard Ben-Veniste
I've always tried to keep my cover prices on the low side. I'm more interested in getting people to read the books we publish and less interested in the profit margin. -- Kevin Sampsell
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
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books. -- George Santayana
We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement. -- George Eliot
So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources. -- Henry David Thoreau
I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
You're always working at the margin of what you don't understand, that's the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time. -- Emmet Gowin
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
No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers. -- William E. Burrows
The point of simple living, for me has got to be:A soft place to landA wide margin of errorRoom to breatheLots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day -- Leo Babauta
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
In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting. -- Charlie Munger
Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them. -- Sam Harris
A new poll shows only 3 percent strongly approve of the job Congress is doing, with a margin of error of 4 percent, so it's possible that "less than no one" thinks they're doing a good job. -- Jay Leno
War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island. -- Kenneth Grahame
My calculations - allowing for a 12 percent margin of error, based on the radius of the corresponding confidence interval and the surgeon general's warning - concluded that they probably didn't stay behind for the tacos. -- Darynda Jones

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