We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves.… — Alison Jolly Copy Share Image
The fact is, out of all the possible reasons for going bankrupt, only three account for nearly 90 percent of bankruptcy: a… — Amelia Warren Tyagi Copy Share Image
Most people consider themselves above the gritty and relentless details of life that allow the creation of great wealth. They leave it… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
That day the U.S. announced that the dollar would be devalued by 10 percent. By switching the yen to a floating exchange… — Paul Volcker Copy Share Image
People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn't matter whether it is caffeinated or decaffeinated -… — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
To paraphrase the philosopher Nietzsche, he who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. I've found that 20 percent… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I have a place in New England. It's in the middle of nowhere, like horror movie style - Stephen King-ville. It's a… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
In the beginning of the 19th century, maybe forty percent of women and fifty percent of men could produce a signature, which… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task - when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Given all the money printing that is going on globally - and not just in the US - and given that the… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected… — Gary Miller Copy Share Image
Since I began exploring the ocean in the 1950s, 90 percent of the big fish have been stripped away. Tuna, sharks, swordfish,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The first 90 percent of a revolution is creating the product or service; the second 90 percent is evangelizing it. At the… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up… — John Walsh Copy Share Image
Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. Consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
When I do the roles, when I'm in the room and auditioning, I'll ask the director if they're cool with me adding… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
If you talk privately to our tech companies, our pharmaceutical companies, our high-end manufacturing companies, the high end of America, where the… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit,… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
He [Chris Martin] can't have background music on. It has to be 100 percent of his attention. But if he isn't at… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
When we talk about the Far East we usually mean the Far East itself, including Primorye Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Kamchatka, and Chukotka,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent of all the soy that's raised goes to livestock. So people make fun of vegetarians for being tofu eaters, but… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's easy to reckon that the oomph to hurl even a Smart Car-size spacecraft to another star at, say, 20 percent the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost… — Bob Graham Copy Share Image
I haven't had surgery. I've had my teeth done, which was a massive insecurity for me. But I'm one hundred percent happy.… — Cher Lloyd Copy Share Image
From an economic perspective, women are treated unfairly: they perform 66 percent of the world's work and produce 50 percent of the… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I only wear heels when it's 100-percent required, and even sometimes not then. I have to talk myself into a bra. I've… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image