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“In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and in the balance-sheet position. Thus in the long run the market test and the ordinary business test of a successful equity commitment tend to be largely identical.”

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.”

Cases Economy Position Balance Enron

Author:Kenneth Lay

“New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time....It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.”

Whole New York Movement Position Balance Walking Performers Circus Juggling

Author:John Lindsay

“The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?”

Values Culture Winning Position Hero Balance Cost Worship Messages Core Checks Guts Core Values Hero Worship

Author:Mark Emmert

“The best doctors found a middle position where they were neither overwhelmed by their feelings nor estranged from them. That was the most difficult position of all, and the precise balance - neither too detached nor too caring - was something few learned.”

Feelings Found Difficult Middle Position Balance Doctors Caring Precise Overwhelmed Detached

Book:Travels

Source: Travels

“Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.”

Two Ends Play Easy Position Football Balance Skills Wide Hardest Offensive Quarterback Receiver Lineman Offensive Lineman Wide Receiver

Author:Tony Gonzalez

“Some if it may seem hokey to some people, but if you traveled where I've traveled, done what I've done and seen the results that I've been getting, then you understand where I'm coming from. Playing in a football game is like being in 30-40 car accidents. You can find yourself in awkward positions. That stuff takes its toll. But if you take advantage of health care, balance your body back out, put it back where its supposed to be, you function better, and you recover faster.”

“Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgements and personal information as they delicately balance their interests, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.”

“Long term debt and bank debt (including off-balance sheet financing must be judiciously employed. There must be room to expand the debt position if required.”

Ifs Long Term Rooms Position Balance Including Debt Long Term Sheets Employed Financing Balance Sheets

Author:Peter Cundill

“But every time new powers emerge they have to find their balance. New powers are emerging, old powers are declining. It's not that process that's dangerous, it's the emerging position that's dangerous.”

Process Dangerous Position Balance Emerging

Author:George Friedman

“My position is that the rate should align with the level of economic development. Because it is always about a balance, a balance of interests, and it should reflect this balance. A balance between those who sell something across the border and those who benefit from a low rate, as well as a balance between the interests of those who buy, who need the rate to be higher. A balance between national producers, for example, agricultural producers who are interested in it.”

Needs Should Wells Interest Levels Economic Example Position Development Balance Higher Benefits Lows Sells Rate Producers Borders Economic Development

Author:Vladimir Putin

“[Donald Trump] has offered me a position. Very early on. In fact, the election night or the wee hours of Wednesday, he did. And I am very humbled by that. I think that it's everybody's dream to serve their nation at the highest level if they can. But I have four small children and I need to balance all types of personal and professional considerations.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Children Facts Dream Night Nations Hours Levels Four Position Type Trump Balance Highest Election Consideration Small Child Wednesday

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“Everybody is talking about synergies. You've got to take out every cost you possibly can. You have to position yourself as your services change.You have to think about in five years from now what is going to happen technologically to you. And then you do have to think about M&A or your balance sheet, and you have to think about everything in the context of, "Am I prepared to meet that challenge?".”

Thinking Years Happens Challenges Talking Five Position Balance Cost Prepared Five Years Sheets Synergy Balance Sheets

Author:Ken Moelis

“A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to guide us and we probably evolved to be sensitive to Bible-Golden Rule situations. But the dilemmas faced by a worker - a journalist, an architect, an auditor - or by a citizen (what position to take on stem cell research, whether to run for office, what is the proper balance between taxation and social nets) - are not questions that can be answered by traditional texts or precedents.”