Percent Quotes · Page 33

America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.

— Dick Gregory

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

— Peter DeFazio

“Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.”

— Irving Berlin

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

— Lee Strasberg

Ninety percent of my thoughts are, "How will this work on the radio?"

— Rush Limbaugh

There's no doubt. Its certain that ill be 100 percent

— Lionel Messi

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

— Colin Powell

You know, you've got fans and 99.9 percent of them are great-and .1 percent are jerks.

— Metta World Peace

President Erdogan is aiming Turkey at a Sharia nation. That’s where he wants to go. He is a Sharia law, full-fledged, one…

— Rush Limbaugh

Does anybody think Steve Jobs should not be in the 1 percent? He made life better for the 99 percent of the…

— Clark Durant

It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge…

— Sue Grafton

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the…

— John Warren Kindt

Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71…

— Lou Krieger

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5…

— Robert Payne

Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there…

— Jared Diamond

I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as they're balanced with fresh vegetables.…

— Tyler Florence

No company can be expected to build a nuclear reactor, an oil well, a coal mine, or anything else that's one hundred…

— Robert Reich

I remember, my first job when I got my working papers at 13 was as a vendor at Yankee Stadium - the…

— Lloyd Blankfein

Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to…

— Chuck Zito

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one…

— Jonathan Kozol

I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and…

— Jack Dorsey

If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the…

— Phil Mickelson

Facts are that the financial advisers on Wall Street today or anywhere depending on which firm, what point in time - 85…

— Sallie Krawcheck

You're better off owning 30 percent and having two amazing partners who compliment you and are equally as driven as you are…

— Rob Dyrdek

The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those…

— Michelle Alexander

If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world's problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would…

— Moby

If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese, your risk…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

Speaking about our largest oil company Rosneft, and I recalled in the beginning that almost 20 percent of it [19.7] belongs to…

— Vladimir Putin

Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in…

— Andrew Greeley

I have 90 percent or 95 percent support in the African American community and it's not sort of "Well, he's black, so…

— Barack Obama

In natural pregnancy, more than half of fertilized eggs fail to implant or are otherwise lost. Should we regard that as an…

— Michael Sandel

10 years ago [in 2006], nearly 90 percent of those albums sold enough in that year to reach Gold status. 10 years…

— Cary Sherman

Especially if you're a good receiver, nobody plays at all-the-way 100 percent.

— Mike Evans

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

— Nate Silver

Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.

— Christopher Guest

Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

— Dennis Rodman

As a collegiate, I think you spend 50 percent of your time recruiting. It is a distasteful process.

— Marv Levy

... how much time you should be spending on hiring? The answer is 0 or 25 percent.

— Sam Altman

You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent.

— Rudy Giuliani