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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

#actually #always #amount #companies #dollar

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

— Peter DeFazio

#crude oil #increase #margins #oil #over

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

#central #dead #enjoy #how #i

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

#cent #excess #greed #i #idiot

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

#along #between #could #find #found

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

#being #feeling #flourish #margins #movements

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

— James Baker

#frustrating #i #lose #margins #narrow

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

— Don DeLillo

#american writers #dangerous #live #margins #more

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

— Joanna Russ

#does #growth #marginal #margins #minority

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. ↗