Ninety percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut…

“His mom always said that 90 percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and ninety percent gall and egomania…

— Judith Crist

“Not knowing when to shut up was one of my greatest faults.”

— Boy George

“You finally figuring out that being right isn’t nearly as important as knowing when to shut up?”

— Nicole James

Foresight is knowing when to shut your mouth before someone suggests it.

— Anonymous

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But…

— Paul Graham

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania…

— Judith Crist

Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.

— Ted Turner

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

— Bill Gates

“If you’re not consistently carrying out your plan ninety percent of the time, you really don’t have a plan at all.”

— Alwyn Cosgrove

And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart

— Holly Goldberg Sloan

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

— Yogi Berra

Ninety percent of our managers started in the hourly ranks or started in the lower ranks.

— J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr

Ninety-nine percent of getting over a problem is mental.

— Bernard Hopkins

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

— Robert A. Heinlein