Percentages Quotes - Page 6

• Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Pay, Bigs, Employee

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• There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  People, Care, Young

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• When you go to bed tonight, ask yourself 'What percentage of my day did I spend creating residual income?' If the answer is ZERO, you're in trouble.

  Robert G. Allen

  Zero, Creating, Bed

  Robert G. Allen (2004). “Multiple Streams of Income: How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

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• I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.

  Jim Bakker

  Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

  Mario Puzo

  War, Suicidal, Gambling

  Mario Puzo (1977). “Inside Las Vegas”

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• The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That’s the most important percentage there is. I mean, if they lose, they’re willin’ to lose everything. If they win, they’re usually satisfied to win enough to pay for dinner and a show. The best gamblers know that.

  Puggy Pearson

  Real, Mean, Winning

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• Several of our players at Stanford have used the J-Glove and J-Strap with excellent results. It is a very useful training tool for the player looking to improve both their shot and their percentage. I would recommend it to anyone looking for that extra edge.

  Tara VanDerveer

  Player, Training, Tools

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• Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.

  Albert Speer

  Normal, Opinion, Sickness

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• In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Past, Today, Wellness

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• What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Teaching, Judgement, Church

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• At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Girl, Math, Boys

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• If the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Race, Color, Titles

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• People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

  Sydney Schanberg

  New York, Issues, People

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• God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives.

  Daniel Palmer

  Sacrifice, Missionary, Helping

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• Maybe some percentage that’s substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.

  Vinod Khosla

  Zero, Negative, Add

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• I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Powerful, Issues

  Speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

  Alain Robert

  People, Comfort, Want

  "Alain Robert: 'French Spiderman' on his death-defying stunts". Interview with Stefanie Blendis, Rosie Tomkins, Teo Kermeliotis, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2010.

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• There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Money, Giving

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• I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

  Art Linkletter

  Learning, I've Learned, Hundred

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• We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Shopping, Adults

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• Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

  Cliff Stearns

  Home, College, Income

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• Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?

  Sheldon Adelson

  Should, Taxes, Higher

  "Takes: Sheldon Adelson's switch" by Jon Michaud, www.newyorker.com. January 10, 2012.

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• A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in
  my own work, could be attributed to testimonies.

  Raul Hilberg

  Mistake, Testimony, My Own

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• Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, “I did it again.

  James Altucher

  Jobs, People, Energy

  FaceBook post by James Altucher from Nov 20, 2013

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• When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

  Ben Shahn

  War, Mean, People

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