"One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth……" — Jake Simmons, Jr.
"One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on."
More Eighty Quotes
- During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away… — Bernard Baruch
- Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy… — Norman Borlaug
- A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred… — Lord Byron
- Eighty percent of success is showing up. — Woody Allen
- By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden… — Henry Mitchell
- The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years… — Red Smith
- In a dream you are never eighty. — Anne Sexton
- Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. — Henry Ford
- Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we… — Abraham Lincoln
- Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask.… — Peter De Vries
- My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single… — H. L. Mencken
- We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions… — P.J. O'Rourke