Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins…

Jeff Bezos
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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
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