Margins Quotes

“No daylight to separate us.

Only kinship. Inching ourselves closer to creating a community of kinship such that God might recognize it. Soon we imagine, with God, this circle of compassion. Then we imagine no one standing outside of that circle, moving ourselves closer to the margins so that the margins themselves will be erased. We stand there with those whose dignity has been denied. We locate ourselves with the poor and the powerless and the voiceless. At the edges, we join the easily despised and the readily left out. We stand with the demonized so that the demonizing will stop. We situate ourselves right next to the disposable so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.”
― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

“You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Margins matter in business. If a business has $1,000,000 dollars in revenues but $1.5 million in expenses, the business is heading for self destruction due to a liquidity problem. Meanwhile, if another business only has $100,000 in revenues and $50,000 in expenses, it’s doing better than the first business even though it has less revenues. And a business with $60,000 in revenues but only $2,000 in expenses technically has a greater margin than both of the other businesses. Revenues are very important, but the key is to both maximize revenues and minimize expenses so that you have the widest profit margin possible.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“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

“The boundaries of this world are forever shifting – from day to night, joy to sorrow, love to hate, and from life itself to death; and who can say at what moment we may suddenly cross over the border, from one state of existence to another, like heat applied to some flammable substance? I have been given my own ever-changing margins, across which I move, continually and hungrily, like a migrating animal. Now civilized, now untamed; now responsive to decency and human concern, now viciously attuned to the darkest of desires.”
― Michael Cox, The Meaning of Night

“I know the you who’s in the margins. I know you’re thinking hard about what you want and why– more than some people ever do. I know you can take on a challenge and kick its ass. And I know you’ve tried harder to understand me than anyone has in a long time.”
― Doug Dorst, S.

“If you have to constantly reinvest the business profits back into the business just to keep the business going, then your business has a major cash flow problem. If your business has thin margins like that, it is incapable of resilience. If you want your business to be resilient, you gotta improve cash flow and widen margins.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

“Within the industries where businesses typically operate with tight margins, bartering provides even more of an operational advantage. And by incorporating bartering into those industries, wider margins can maybe become more typical.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.”
― Julianne Malveaux

“I would agree with your statement that many of my protagonists are outsiders. I wonder if we all are, and even people who don't think they are, and they're just better at masking it. When we shut our bedroom door at night, however well-integrated we think we are with the rest of society, maybe there's something illusory about that...”
― David Mitchell

“In business, it's very important to protect your businesses income! Because a business with no income is not really a business at all. As long as the business has income - even if margins are slim, you can find a way to cut expenses, improve cash flow and improve it's profitability. Tight cash flow can be better leveraged than no cash flow. But if you make choices that jeopardize or forefeit the income, because you're frustrated with slim margins, then you forfeit that opportunity. Work with those slim margins while you work on widening them.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“A company can accept lower margins when it has less debt. Debt forces prices up and because of the risk it adds to the company, it also forces continuous wider margins.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The kingdom is nearby, adjacent to our own reality, present, yet veiled in the boundaries we avoid, and in the margins we protect ourselves from. So there is no riddle. The eschatological reality is here, yet we feel the urge to evade it, and the lure to ignore it.”
― Vitor Westhelle

“Margins matter. A business that doesn’t respect its margins will die in the margins.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Youngsters can plunder a text and find what they want in the margins.”
― Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

“... the knowledge traditionally associated with the center is deeply compromised by its sheer lack of knowledge... with regards to the margins... [on the margins one] knows (and has been required to know) far more about the center than the center ever knows... about the margins.”
― Fernando Segovia

“Such is the reason for avoiding shame and keeping margins concealed for it is there where fragility is made manifest.”
― Vitor Westhelle

“Every dollar counts. At the end of the fiscal year, you’ll realize that the bottom line is comparable to a sum total of figures that could be considered negligible.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“العالم يحاسب على الجُبن، لأنه يحتقر الضعفاء، أما الأقوياء وكل من يقوم بجريمته علناً، فقلما يحاسب، أو أنها تقع عندما ينهار ويضعف. هذا العالم البائس هو عالم القوة والأقوياء، أما البقية فلا وجود لهم سوى في هوامشه.”
― جلجامش نبيل, Gilgamesh Nabeel, صراع الأقنعة

“To live within the margins is to acknowledge the existence of other roads.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough