Ninety Nine Quotes

• I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  1934 The World as I See It.

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• Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Positivity, Soul, Honor

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• Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

  Thornton Wilder

  Funny, People, Insanity

  1954 The Matchmaker, act 1.

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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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• Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

  William Feather

  Risk, Done, Hundred

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• Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

  David Hasselhoff

  People, Call Me, Percent

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• One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Motivational, Badass

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• I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

  Tony Bennett

  Success, Careers, World

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• Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.

  M. F. Husain

  People, Stills, Percent

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• Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

  Cory Lidle

  Air, Land, Pilots

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• Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

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• If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, People, Ethics

  "The Roosevelt I Knew". Book by Frances Perkins, p. 5, 1946.

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• Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Science, Eight

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• Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Hard Work, Science

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• Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Giving, Political, News

  "The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, 1984.

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• Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

  Betty Comden

  Answers, Want, Hundred

  Betty Comden (1995). “Off Stage”

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• A wife should always be few feet behind her husband. If he is an MA you should be a BA.If he is 5'4'tall you shouldn't be more than 5'3'tall. If he is earning five hundred rupees you should never earn more than four hundred and ninety nine rupees.That's the only rule to follow if you want a happy marriage...No partnership can ever be equal.It will always be unequal, but take care it is unequal in favor of the husband. If the scales tilt in your favor, God help you, both of you.

  Shashi Deshpande

  Husband, Feet, Wife

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• Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth’s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for … the origin of chains of high mountains … and the rise of lava to the earth’s surface.

  Reginald Aldworth Daly

  Ocean, Ice, Opposites

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• Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.

  James Kelman

  Stars, Reading, Emotional

  James Kelman (2012). “And the Judges Said&…: Essays”, p.56, Birlinn

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• Ninety-nine percent of everyday things are things we don't need - that goes for regular visits to the hairdresser just as it does for clothing. What would it mean if we all consumed 20 percent less? It would be catastrophic. It would mean 20 percent less jobs, 20 percent less taxes, 20 percent less money for schools, doctors, roads. The global economy would collapse.

  Karl-Johan Persson

  Jobs, School, Mean

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• Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, `I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to this charity fund, to that trust....` You feel a little happier. The world has lived in poverty, the world has lived in scarcity, ninety-nine percent of people have lived a poor life, almost starving and dying, and only one percent of people have lived with richness, with money - they have always felt guilty. To help them, the religions developed the idea of charity. It is to rid them of their guilt.

  Rajneesh

  College, Ideas, People

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• I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store.

  Dave Winfield

  Running, Home, Careers

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• The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Employers, Interest, Employed

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• Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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