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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
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. -- Bill Russell
The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them. -- Greg Boyle
If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there. -- Colin Firth
Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams. -- Novak Djokovic
I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper. -- Kevin Nealon
Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. -- Cornel West
Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins? -- Natalie Massenet
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
By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption. -- Clayton M. Christensen
If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins. -- Henry Williamson
The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment. -- Zong Qinghou
I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. -- Gabe Newell
Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters. -- James Surowiecki
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. -- Barack Obama
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination. -- Joshua Foer
Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material. -- John Darnielle
There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future. -- Alan Moore
A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over. -- Gary Oldman
I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades. -- Meg Cabot
When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple. -- Ben Horowitz
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. -- Ruben Hinojosa
For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training. -- Ryan Holmes
I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with. -- Gabe Newell
I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four. -- Daniel Gilbert
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. -- Sophia Bush
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. -- Anne Lamott
Look for companies with high profit margins. -- Warren Buffett
My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls. -- Gunter Brus
A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things. -- Martha Ostenso
Know your margins; then focus on growing the business. -- Ehab Atalla
I like being on the margins. You work better there. -- Billy Childish
Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences. -- Will Youmans
While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins. -- Robert Rauschenberg
It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins. -- Lou Gerstner
Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win....by big margins. -- Simone Elkeles
Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins. -- Dale Jamieson
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. -- Don DeLillo
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. -- Joanna Russ
I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. -- James Baker
I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. -- James Baker
Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins. -- Bernard Arnault
In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there. -- Peter DeFazio
How capable are we of bringing about authentic change if we don't have voices from the margins? -- Richard Twiss
The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf. -- Thomas Keneally
When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins. -- Julianne Malveaux
The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less. -- Joel Salatin
All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins. -- Paul Theroux
I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean. -- John Sayles
I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper -- Kevin Nealon
I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits. -- Daniel Woodrell
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. -- Sam Harris
As a shareholder I have expressed my frustration with not getting more information about revenue and margins from the cloud. -- Steve Ballmer
It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line. -- Yuri Milner
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. -- J. G. Ballard
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
So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent. -- Jesse Jackson
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
Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know. -- Thornton Wilder
The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
I am not aware how you succeed politically when you insult women, who far more than men consistently provide you with great margins of support. -- Bernie Sanders
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. -- Orhan Pamuk
Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation. -- Margaret M. Lock
Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers high hardback margins essentially disappear. -- Barry Eisler
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
I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book. -- Anthony Marra
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. -- Geoff Mulgan
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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. -- Caprice Bourret
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
New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs. -- James Packer
Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element. -- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element. -- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society. -- Martin Firrell
When we walked the mowed margins of the field in the evenings, a school of black crickets sprang ahead of us like dolphins in front of a ship. -- Kristin Kimball
Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated. -- John Podhoretz
The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel. -- Baba Kalyani
There is no doubt that if Donald [Trump] steamrolls through Super Tuesday, wins everywhere with big margins, that he may well be unstoppable. I don't think that will happen. -- Ted Cruz
The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE's diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver top-line growth, increased margins and strong cash generation. -- Jack Welch
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. -- Carl Hiaasen
The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins. -- Anne Rice
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. -- Jim Jarmusch
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. -- Wadah Khanfar
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to. -- Helene Hanff
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
It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible. -- Arthur C. Clarke
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. -- Anna Deavere Smith
All are interconnected...the environment; rights of the dying; care of caregivers; education and medical care for peoples of the Himalayas; prison work; those living on the margins of society, particularly kids. -- Joan Halifax
I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books. -- Tara Bray Smith
In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid. -- Benjamin Graham
This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated -- Scott Lynch
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. -- Don DeLillo
Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard. -- Narendra Modi
The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire. -- Shane Claiborne
In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays and faster processors to justify their high prices. -- Vivek Wadhwa
The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isnt so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment. -- Zong Qinghou
I've been working on the margins and I was aware of this choice from the start. I buy most of what's written and produced in the Arab world and I don't much like it. -- Hassan Blasim
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. -- Jeff Bezos
Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge, posing an untapped opportunity to create markets, bring people in from the margins and give them the tools with which to help themselves. -- Kofi Annan
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