Top 100 Quotes About Leverage
#2. The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!
Seth Godin
#3. When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.
Greg Cox
#4. There's a lot more emphasis placed on torsion and coil and leverage. Basically, the women are being taught very much along the same lines as the men. You don't have to consider strength as a factor so much. These girls are working out like fiends. It's a trend that's going to continue.
David Leadbetter
#5. The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.
Frederick W. Smith
#6. Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."
Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison. "You take the poetry out of everything."
"Says the man who'd just punch the haystack.
Keith R.A. DeCandido
#7. For American foreign aid to become more effective, it must embrace the power of partnerships, access the transformative nature of free enterprise, and leverage the abundant resources that can come from the private sector.
Mitt Romney
#8. Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.
Max Baucus
#9. Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.
Harvey MacKay
#10. The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.
Mark Miller
#11. To effectively leverage the social graph, every company needs to understand that they need to make their information easily transferable.
Erik Qualman
#12. If anybody is so mad at Vladimir Putin, you know what they could do? They could advocate for a gas tax. He gets all his leverage from selling gas and oil. If we had a gas tax that made that less palatable, he would be less of a player on the world stage.
Bill Maher
#13. But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road.
Jim Cantalupo
#14. There is no need to use force. Instead, create a path of least resistance, and gravity will do the rest.
Michael Dunlap
#15. I can follow pretty much every programming language out there, I can make a two-hundred-year-old diary out of some really nasty ingredients, I can even make sense out of the instruction booklets that come with IKEA furniture, but I can*not* make heads or tails of this nonsense right here.
Keith R.A. DeCandido
#16. We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.
Charles R. Jackson
#17. No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.
Vladimir Putin
#18. As long as the big banks are allowed to remain big, their political leverage over Washington will remain big. And as long as their political leverage remains big, the taxpayer and economic tab for the next mess they create will be big.
Robert Reich
#19. Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.
Thomas Friedman
#20. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.
Grant Cardone
#21. The more he told me about himself, the more leverage I had for manipulation," he told Bob's researcher. "I just kept fueling the fire; the more fuel I added to the fire, the bigger payoff for me. I was the puppet master pulling the strings." Eventually
Jon Ronson
#22. You don't need to leverage natural disasters. You don't need to capitalize on civil unrest. You need to be human. It's not always about business.
Scott Stratten
#23. Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.
Stephen Covey
#24. Career Acceleration = Mindset x Value x Leverage Let's
Bozi Dar
#25. It's not the number of contacts you cultivate but the diversity and depth of connections that leverage your opportunity to use best talents more often to accomplish more.
Kare Anderson
#26. Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.
Greg Cox
#27. Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.
Jane Alexander
#29. The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.
Robin S. Sharma
#30. When I was in the leverage buy-out business we bought Weetabix and we leveraged it up to make our return. You could say that anyone who was eating Weetabix was paying for our purchase of Weetabix. It was just business. It is the same for Liverpool.
Tom Hicks
#31. If you can engage the influencer's passions, and work with them to craft a compelling logical appeal, then you can leverage the credibility of the influencer to actually sway hearts and minds.
Tom Webster
#32. That's it - three steps: motivate, connect, and leverage.
Seth Godin
#33. In 'Leverage,' I don't really play an insurance investigator but a man who used to be an insurance investigator.
Timothy Hutton
#34. You get to help people in ways that I can't even imagine. Hell, *you get to help people.*
Keith R.A. DeCandido
#35. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote ... As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.
Paul Weyrich
#36. Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there were no swipe fees at all. Merchants can't negotiate or control them. They've tried, but they have no leverage against the big banks and issuers. So they get ignored.
Peter Welch
#37. Yes it is, actually. Knowing everyone's little secrets is a means of gaining leverage over them and I never pass up an opportunity for that.
Dara England
#38. With more money, you can take better care of yourself and leverage your passion and higher purpose in the world. Earn more, so you can give more of yourself and put your money to work for causes that make our world a better place.
John Assaraf
#39. They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible.
Dave Kopel
#40. Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.
Charlie Munger
#41. My average day on 'Leverage' starts at 5 A. M. and ends 12 to 14 hours later. An hour drive to the set and back sometimes makes the day unbearably long. You have to grab a few minutes to yourself where you can.
Gina Bellman
#42. When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.
Louis C.K.
#43. Any time you are in the content creation business, you have to leverage that content in as many ways as possible. DVD is one valuable secondary growth channel for HBO. Maybe the Internet is next.
James Goss
#44. You never get what you deserve; only what you have the leverage to negotiate.
Jalen Rose
#45. The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
Vince Cable
#46. I am first a creator, but my ongoing objective is to leverage my personal success to help mentor new and existing talent and further help them achieve their goals. Endemol Beyond shares this vision, and together, we will drive the future of original content for generations to come.
Michelle Phan
#48. I'm very involved in Shred, constantly checking in on something. It takes a lot of time. But it has let me leverage who I am as an athlete into a product.
Ted Ligety
#49. Weakness derives from the soul. Most everyone has one, which gives a woman like me leverage. Leverage to play people to my liking, and so I do.
E.K. Blair
#50. She will speculate that she didn't fully know her husband - this will give her leverage to seek him, to come to know him. It will keep her husband "alive" in her memory - elusive, teasing.
Joyce Carol Oates
#51. The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.
Tony Robbins
#52. The goal of faith isn't to take away your fears but to leverage those fears to create bolder belief. Faith leads you past your fears and reassures you of God's presence. And after a while, you begin to trust that God is going to lift you above the waves this time just like he did last time.
Steven Furtick
#53. Cerner has significant growth opportunities. We believe there is leverage with HNA Millennium and in our business model that can grow both our top-line and earnings during 2000 and through the foreseeable part of this decade.
Neal Patterson
#54. When we have specific interests or purposes, can we leverage this tsunami of multimedia to our own individual aims and for the greater good of all?
Mark T. Maybury
#55. Life is based on leverage. The more you know how to leverage life, the more successful you will become.
Ehab Atalla
#56. Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.
Douglas Rushkoff
#57. I remember, when we started 'Leverage,' we were all in Chicago, and I read the script for the pilot and thought, 'Boy, this is just a real interesting place to begin a character.' I had to figure out how to go about playing someone who had hit rock bottom.
Timothy Hutton
#58. Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.
Alan Rosenberg
#59. Ty cried out and bucked his hips. He pulled his feet up to give him more leverage and tried to meet Zane's movements with his own.
Abigail Roux
#60. It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#61. Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.
Leonard Orr
#62. When you can't lend or trade - and you can't invest with the leverage that juiced returns to support seven- and eight-figure bonuses - how exactly are you going to make money?
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#63. He's not dead, Parker." He clenched his jaw so hard she could see the muscles working in it.
"Are you just saying that to make me feel better?"
"No, I'm saying it to make myself feel better.
Matt Forbeck
#64. A thrilled customer is the most potent marketing asset your organization can leverage.
John Jantsch
#65. Just remember, this is a collaborative effort. We don't have time for creative differences or outbreaks of artistic integrity.
Greg Cox
#66. I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
Bode Miller
#67. For associations to emerge healthy and strong, they must re-engage with their members around the heart-centered why of why they exist, leverage current leadership, and build future leadership while they integrate the balance of technology and face-to-face experiences.
Holly Duckworth
#68. We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services.
John Larson
#69. Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.
Simon Mainwaring
#70. High EQ decision makers can leverage multifaceted thought processes in making sound judgments and improving the overall decision-making maturity.
Pearl Zhu
#71. Hammer down product fundamentals first. Make sure you've got something that works before doubling down on promotion and marketing. Create a groundswell of organic support, and only then leverage PR and advertising to spread the word.
Ryan Holmes
#72. I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.
Tim Johnson
#73. That was Emma - she'd have enjoyed knowing she had something like that, something that could blow her whole fucking life and mine apart if it came out. Her little bit of power.
J.P. Delaney
#74. The Australian Army is a highly respected National institution because of its people. It's all about the people. If we communicate, and leverage off all in our organisation, not just our senior officers, our IQ will be awesome. Then there will be no job which is beyond us.
Ken Gillespie
#75. Instead of complaining about adapting for millennials, it's imperative for leaders and managers to acknowledge the role of millennial behavior as an indication of the needs of the modern workplace to attract, leverage, and retain modern talent.
Crystal Kadakia
#76. The authorities don't grant concessions out of the kindness of their hearts; they simply concede the reality of what their subjects are strong enough to compel from them. If you want political leverage, don't beg for it, don't seek it through their channels - take power outside them.
CrimethInc.
#77. Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For many, buying art is their escape from the real world. Make it entertaining and enjoyable.
Cory Trepanier
#78. It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other operating system's marketing plan.
Douglas Rushkoff
#79. We try to use our experiences as leverage for our social work, to help children to get education because that is the way to get a special life.
Vitali Klitschko
#80. The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.
Michael Bergdahl
#81. When you've done all you can, do just a little bit more. Any extra effort you make will draw immense leverage from all the ordinary efforts which have preceded it. That can be powerful and effective.
Ralph Marston
#82. I'd blow someone for a valium," I said in Jacob's ear.
"Maybe he's got one ... but try offering a hand-job first so you retain some leverage.
Jordan Castillo Price
#83. I took part in two 'Leverage' conventions. Fans fly in from as far as Russia and Australia. It's expensive to attend.
Gina Bellman
#84. The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.
Azim Premji
#85. The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You can push credit too far, do a dumb acquisition, leverage yourself excessively - it's not just derivatives [that can bring about your downfall].
Charlie Munger
#86. Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.
Stephen Covey
#87. You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot.
Matt Forbeck
#88. The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage.
Robert Kiyosaki
#89. When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.
Barry Ritholtz
#90. By becoming awakened to what is boundless and unchanging, I found that changes became more natural and easier to produce. Realizing that I was timeless and changeless gave me a place to stand and a kind of leverage.
Ilchi Lee
#91. I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.
Marilynne Robinson
#93. The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science
Susan Wojcicki
#94. Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.
Kevin O'Leary
#95. Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.
Peter Senge
#96. To leverage means to create a win-win situation.
Ehab Atalla
#97. Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt.
Alex Berenson
#98. I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.
Eli Broad
#99. Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#100. The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
C. K. Prahalad
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