But the crux here is — how
much margin do I really need to be safe?
Not exact matches
Now, she says, pretty
much all the jobs she
does are contracted for at least $ 1 million, and she shoots for profit
margins between 25 and 38 percent.
It's all
done consciously, but what we now know through research is that while that remains an extremely useful aspect of intelligence, there's an awful lot more that's going on on the
margins of the mind, areas that are
much more hazy or poetic.»
By creating a
margin - focused and reliability - focused business, Backblaze was able to profitably add the ability to
do what Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others have at a
much lower price of $ 0.005 a gigabyte stored or accessed a month (in comparison to Amazon or Microsoft's $ 0.022).
But these days, in an industry that IATA predicts will have an average profit
margin of 0.5 % in 2012 and whose members are
doing everything they can to differentiate themselves in the market to stay competitive, not so
much.
And this figure includes businesses like cloud and hardware, which probably have a
much lower
margin than its core advertising business (Google
does not break out operating profit or loss for these sub-businesses).
But mostly if you raise $ 15 — 20 million and so
do 4 — 5 of your competitors there is that
much more incentive for «bad behavior,» which is where the «winner - take - all» mentality forces growth over
margins.
«
Margins much higher than they should be, because when there's no competition, everyone
does what they want.
While MCD doesn't have as
much of a
margin of safety in the share price as I'd normally like, with a very long - term investing horizon, I feel comfortable paying up a little for a quality stock as I detailed here.
Much as Walton promised his executives he would dance the hula on Wall Street if Wal - Mart reached a certain mark of profitability — and followed through — Sicupira, upon achieving a 6 percent Ebitda
margin at Lojas Americanas,
did the samba in carnaval dress in downtown Rio.
With the new T - Mobile deal providing a big boost to revenue, its
margins continuing to expand, and plenty of cash on hand with which to invest in growth, we think IQNT can
do much better than the market seems to expect.
«The absence of deteriorating conditions for most firms, both in terms of hiring and
margins,
does much to explain Beijing's reluctance to introduce more large - scale stimulus,» Leland Miller, China Beige Book International president, said in a statement with Craig Charney, research and polling director.
The elevation of stock prices has had
much to
do with unusually wide profit
margins resulting from a depressed share of GDP going to wages and salaries.
Therefore, Coontz would probably say, neither churches nor the marriage education movement nor the government should
do much to try keep marriage from moving toward the
margins of our personal and social lives.
«That doesn't make
much sense given its profitability and
margins.
ya Samuel you r right this may be our season afterall also gigi2 some of our players are on the edge of their carrers so it is the best time to win it but let's concentrate on tonights game and it
does nt matter by how
much margin but what all matters tonight is win to ensure our hopes are still alive.
And the Jets
did show improvement, dropping this year's opener by a
much narrower
margin, 31 - 6 to the Denver Broncos.
I think the refs got pretty
much everything right (at least within the
margins of «yeah, okay, I can understand why they
did / didn't call that even though I'd have
done it differently»).
22 attempts and 8 on target... Oh please, please someone enlighten me as to why we
do nt need another CF and how Giroud is a good one when he got bullied by a 16 year old debutant who forced him to go out wide as a lone striker, That defence too my god people were talking about how Koscielny and Metersacker were the best pairing at Cb no were not... and today proved why there were a few times metersacker overcommited when payet was dribblng left a gaping hole in that defence and if westhams strikers were on the ball this would have been a
much larger
margin.
Liverpool has never been
much of a problem for mr wenger and i expect us to win by a
margin of 3 goals... the days of depending on a certain player are over since we don't have such kind of exceptional players like henry so its up to everyone to put in a strong performance and i hope theo starts that game cz the guy needs game time cz he deserves it
Therefore you don't have
much margin to work with.
The 2017 Clemson Tigers just walloped Louisville by a
much larger
margin than the national title - winning 2016 team
did, and
did it on the road.
It's certainly a tight
margin, especially in a country where we don't have as
much in the way of scouting as other countries might.
Less than two weeks before Election Day, the parties don't agree on
much — except these House races will be decided by the slimmest of
margins.
He doesn't believe Paladino will win, but also thinks Cuomo's
margin of victory will be «
much tighter» than people expect and he won't
do nearly as well upstate as Spitzer himself
did in 2006.
But just aiming for 10 percent safer doesn't provide
much margin for error, Koopman argues.
I can not fully account for the difference between the paper and electronic logbooks, but I suspect that it has to
do with (a) the fact that students read each other's entries and saw how
much their colleagues progressed, and (b) the fact that I naturally respond at greater length when I type than when I scribble in the
margins.
The participants rated their own competence levels to be
much higher when they won by a wide
margin than when they
did so with only the narrowest of
margins.
This
margin doesn't flex
much on its own but, instead, passively follows along as the invertebrate tightens and relaxes.
A couple of suggestions to make things bit more fair (that actually wouldn't shake up the rankings
much at all but might in the future): 1) You are giving bad ratings way too
much weight, the fact is people just don't buy rally bad games that
much, and since good games tend to outnumber bad by a fair
margin giving them the same weight is excessive.
Selling a mix of old steel - bodied and new aluminum - bodied Ford F - 150s in the first half of 2015 probably didn't hurt, as the old models carried a
much lower cost burden, and thus high profit
margins, no matter the incentives to clear them from dealers» lots.
«CVT's don't like too
much torque, which can result in belt slippage and we had to reduce it to keep a safety
margin,» said Yamaguchi.
But lapses in materials and overall sophistication still leave it lagging the Accord and Camry, though by a
much smaller
margin than the Stratus
did.
Only Google can
do something to keep its hopes alive without thinking
much about keeping the
margins high while selling hardware.
They could make some solid
margins on selling the hardware through other retailers,
much like they are
doing with the Digital Paper.
People tend to buy the whole series digitally and the profit
margin on that doesn't fluctuate
much.
The profit
margin is obviously
much higher since they don't have to spend money on ink, paper, shipping, storage, etc..
As it is, educational books don't have
much of a profit
margin and could be even less lucrative for the authors if the Indian government's plea is accepted.
Traditional publishers complain about this, but honestly don't care
much because they are moving from a nasty returns system in paper books that allowed a 4 % profit to a new system that gives them upwards of 40 % profit
margins in electronic sales.
I will observe that at volumes of 80K +, the narrower
margins of mmpbs (and even tbps) more than makeup for the lack of hardcover
margins, so I don't think the underlying math changes so
much.
There is not
much you can
do to augment your experience like adjusting line - spacing or
margins.
Kobo
does things differently, they also have a bunch of sliders that allow unparalleled flexibility in determining how
much weight you want your fonts to have and configure the
margins and line spaces.
How
much time
did you spend thinking about the impact your print layout has on your profit
margin the last time you
did the book design for your print - on - demand book?
Book publishers
do not provide as
much value with ebooks as they
do with traditional books, so they can't expect the same
margins.
Bookselling is a low -
margin business where it doesn't take
much to tip a retailer from the black to the red.
Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates, called the Fire's $ 199 price «groundbreaking» even if it doesn't give Amazon
much room for a profit
margin.
Sounds like a great business case for more and more small e-pub houses — can
do pretty
much everything a large publisher will
do, at potentially
much lower overhead, which creates
margin that can be used competitively to attract established authors,
do more publicity, etc..
And unlike Amazon, the publishers» profit
margins are so thin, they can't
do that
much, and the authors certainly can't.
It works okay for re-flow and has landscape mode, but the zooming options only work in portrait mode and only offers 4 levels of zoom that doesn't zoom in very
much; in effect it works more like a
margin crop feature instead of zoom.
I'm the type of person who will
much rather
do the marketing of the book, than formatting the fonts and
margins.