"If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety."
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"You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut."
"In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills."
"Everything I need now is here"
"The assistance you need will be provided by the universe as soon as you convert your readiness to willingness."
"The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not."
"Allow not nature more than nature needs."
"Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too."
"Chiropractic gives me the flexibility I need to keep in the game."
"Art needs no spur beyond itself."
"A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien."
"We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young."
"If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for."
"What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds."
"Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least."
"For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone."
"Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers."
"Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so."
"Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything"
"[In London] there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses."