#margin

I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners, is a recipe for economic growth. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#business #business owners #economic #economic growth #growth

The margin between success and drama is fractional. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#drama #fractional #margin #success

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#borrow #buy #could #down #margin

For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#clinton #discussion #had #him #i

So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#being #catholic #catholic school #early #even

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts. ↗

— Peter Singer

#contexts #different #everyone #i #i think

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#average #believe #customers #doing #eighty

You want to do something about it - take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots - but you can't. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling. You get so used to the world being a certain way, there seems to be no escape from it. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#marginalisation #life

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did. ↗

— David Halberstam

#brought #chandler #did #excellence #grand

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. ↗

— James Baker

#frustrating #i #lose #margins #narrow