Percent Quotes - Page 18

• I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Shy, Gains

  "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich" by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. August 14, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My success rate is 100 percent. Do the math.

  Charlie Sheen

  Math, Rate

  "Charlie Sheen Sets His Sights on Sox". Boston Dirt Dogs interview, bostondirtdogs.boston.com. March 8, 2011.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Work, Blue, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 7, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.

  Randall Terry

  Country, Teaching, Years

  24 Copy quote

• You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.

  David Shields

  People, Humanity, Genes

  David Shields (2008). “The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead”, p.3, Vintage

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

  Andrew Natsios

  People, Cost, Four

  4 Copy quote

• I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.

  Patti LaBelle

  Want, Matter, Remembered

  4 Copy quote

• Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!

  Brian Tracy

  Sacrifice, Pay, Fields

  20 Copy quote

• Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Real, Men

  211 Copy quote

• I started my career as a sales guy in the nineties, when the funnel was controlled by the sales rep, who had all the information the prospect wanted, including pricing and discount options. Now 90 percent of it has swung to marketing. It's self-service and you need to be very, very helpful to see to the top of the funnel. The game has changed a lot.

  Brian Halligan

  Careers, Self, Games

  9 Copy quote

• Competition is healthy. It makes you work harder and strive for more and try to find that extra one or two percent in your game that you could possibly improve.

  Bernhard Langer

  Hard Work, Games, Two

  4 Copy quote

• Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

  C. Everett Koop

  Teacher, Taken, Kids

  17 Copy quote

• I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Religious, Attitude, Athlete

  8 Copy quote

• Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent.

  Lee Strasberg

  Art, Hard Work, Twenties

  55 Copy quote

• Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, War, Party

  5 Copy quote

• Ninety-eight percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nation’s economy and we must protect this great resource.....Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual.

  Barack Obama

  Eight, Usual, Movement

  "Obama Tries to Retract Statement to End Billions in Contracting Fraud" by Lloyd Chapman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2008.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Simple, Answers

  22 Copy quote

• For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

  Barbara Feldon

  Marriage, Adventure, Forever

  Barbara Feldon (2007). “Living Alone and Loving It”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Home, Past, Years

  8 Copy quote

• It follows that unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90 percent of your money.

  David Ogilvy

  Copywriting, Headlines, Products

  10 Copy quote

• Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Roles, Systems And Processes, Management

  281 Copy quote

• The awkward truth, according to one study, is that 90 percent of 8-to-16-year-ol ds have viewed pornography online. Considering the standard climax to even the most vanilla hard-core scene today, that means there is an entire generation of young people who think sex ends with a money shot to the face.

  Gail Dines

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

  26 Copy quote

• The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time…To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing information-rich inputs simultaneously…Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

  John Medina

  Errors, Brain, Tasks

  57 Copy quote

• We talk of globalization, and how much money is needed for the education of children in the world, their liberation and rehabilitation just $9 billion which is four days of military expense. Just four days. Nine billion dollars is nothing. But what Americans spent on ice cream just 20 percent of this. One fifth of what you spend on ice creams could bring the children out of the clutches of their masters and put them to school.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Children, Military, School

  39 Copy quote

• If you're talking about mugging little old ladies, you don't say, 'What's our target for the rate of mugging little old ladies?' You say, 'Mugging little old ladies is bad, and we're going to try to eliminate it.' You recognize you might not be a hundred percent successful, but your goal is to eliminate the mugging of little old ladies. And I think we need to eventually come around to looking at carbon dioxide emissions the same way.

  Ken Caldeira

  Successful, Thinking, Talking

  4 Copy quote