Percent Quotes · Page 46

We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy…

— Franklin Raines

No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for…

— Napoleon Hill

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

— Ron Fournier

Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing,…

— James Howard Kunstler

The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple…

— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Only one percent of artists are really profitable and successful. Beyonce is one‑tenth of one percent. When we talk about what she…

— Mathew Knowles

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the…

— Arthur Bloch

While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Most of the productivity gains appear to go to the top 1 percent. Most people don't have enough income and as a…

— Philip Kotler

The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that…

— Michael Eisner

When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy…

— Bart Stupak

In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working…

— Pat Boone

The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other…

— Seth Shostak

To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be a last resort, not a first…

— Robert Byrd

I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it…

— Bill Pullman

Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official…

— Andy Hargreaves

The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.

— W. Edwards Deming

The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in…

— Conan O'Brien

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not…

— Alan Dershowitz

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

— Brad Feld

I formed my own studio, carried my own deficits, owned one-hundred percent of my negatives, and made a lot of mistakes, but…

— Stephen J. Cannell

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life…

— Joel Osteen

More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.

— Don Lemon

Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.

— Kyle MacLachlan

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue…

— Lois Capps

Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.

— Bruce Kovner

Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas.

— Freddie Gibbs

I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will…

— Roger Ailes

If you look at the population of the world you have roughly 15% that will always be resisting advertising. Fifteen percent of…

— Maurice Levy

Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.

— Grace Napolitano

As mayor of Anchorage, with 43 percent of the state's population, we have worked on a variety of projects from road projects…

— Mark Begich

Yoga changed my body 100 percent. It tones everything and leans you out. Dancer's pose is amazing. It works every muscle!

— Nina Dobrev

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

— Barack Obama

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any…

— Ed Markey

By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms,

— Vinod Khosla

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle -…

— Martin Amis

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea…

— Robert Ballard

Crooked Hillary [Clinton] also wants a 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees to pour into our country .

— Donald Trump

The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent…

— David Feherty

When you do something unusual, the audience doesn't 100 percent know what you're up to in the beginning. And if you're doing…

— Greg Daniels