Top 64 Quotes About Percentages
#1. Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.
Roy H. Williams
#2. The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast ... The percentages of broken families and unwed mothers remained higher in places like Arkansas and Oklahoma than in New York and Massachusetts.
Joe Conason
#3. The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.
George Verwer
#4. Designing Great Beers, which has detailed analysis of percentages of ingredients used
Bradley J. Smith
#5. God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives.
Daniel Palmer
#6. After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
#7. Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations.
Oscar Arias
#8. His father read aloud, quietly, his voice steady and gentle, while he pressed a hand to Liam's delicate back, supporting his position.
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She realized Dragos was reading the quarterly profit percentages from a stockholders' report.
Thea Harrison
#9. Ben told me that Tom had just spoken on the mobile to Alice and according to Tom she didn't say anything about falling over at the gym and she sounded "Just like Mum except maybe ten to fifteen percent grumpier than usual." I think he's learning percentages at school right now.
Liane Moriarty
#10. The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.
Frank Scoblete
#11. Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.
Florynce Kennedy
#12. At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.
Chelsea Clinton
#13. Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
Barbara Walters
#14. Obviously the more pucks you get to the net, the more the percentages go up.
Greg Moore
#15. I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the games as long as they got the box scores.
John M. Culkin
#16. Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.
Mary E. Pearson
#18. A lot of coaches play percentages when it comes to me, but that's just a way of saying that you can't stop me.
Shaquille O'Neal
#19. I don't read good reviews. I like to know what percentages are going on. When Sony sends out something saying that people are liking the movie, I like to know that, but I don't actually sit and read the good stuff.
Evan Goldberg
#20. We'll serve, on a good Saturday night six or seven thousand people in all the restaurants, and it's like, the percentages are that maybe one person's not going to like what they get. And I can't be there to fix it. I hate that. We're in this business to make things that please people.
Todd English
#21. We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
Gunter Grass
#22. [Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)
Ernest Hemingway,
#23. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#24. What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.
James Levine
#25. The commitment to literacy was constant on the part of African Americans. And the percentages of literacy by the end of the century, by 1900, basic literacy has galloped ahead. People believed that education, of course, was the turnstile for advancement.
David Levering Lewis
#26. God is the only one that won't disappoint you. Everyone else are percentages of peace.
Shannon L. Alder
#27. While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but the percentages remain constant
Arthur Conan Doyle
#28. If you're troubled by the fact that 80/10 doesn't add up to 100, you've discovered the second confusing thing about the Rule. The 80 and the 20 are percentages of different things, and thus don't need to equal 100.
Chris Anderson
#29. That kid who lives in the projects, he has a self-esteem problem - everybody looks down on him. He may be a good kid, but other parents don't want their kids to be with them because percentages say they could be bad. I went through a lot of that.
Kenny Troutt
#30. If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
Lance Armstrong
#31. The world gets comfort from their odds. Not Christians. Some count their chariots (percentages of survival) and some count their horses (side effects of treatment), but we trust in the name of the LORD our God
John Piper
#32. Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?
Robert Coles
#33. The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
Eric Clapton
#34. We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.
Julian Bond
#35. In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.
Shannon L. Alder
#36. Love is a combination of virtues. The amount you receive from someone is based on the percentage of those virtues learned and applied. Unhappiness in a relationship is not a lack of love, but a lack of virtues in the percentages your significant other needs.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. The most important things aren't decided by percentages.
Haruki Murakami
#38. Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages.
Byron Nelson
#39. The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers.
Nick Clegg
#40. Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.
Mario Puzo
#41. My heart is a weatherballoon caught in an updraft of a chinese tax percentage, the tax percentages are unequivocaaaaaaaaaal, Unequivocaaaaaaaaal. This is the sort of lyrics you could never think of, loser. Here's a razorblade go cut yourself
Thom Yorke
#42. I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.
Alton Brown
#43. In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.
Warren Buffett
#44. Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.
Robert Kiyosaki
#45. If I had to put a percentage on it - I'd say not likely.
Forrest Gregg
#46. Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business.
Charlie Munger
#47. A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it's only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.
Ice Cube
#48. Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.
Xaviera Hollander
#49. You're funny.' Phoebe passed me the last chocolate cupcake. 'And I always thought your friends were laughing over their own farts.'
'Ninety percent of Eastwood's male population laughs over their own farts. Present company excluded, naturally.
Robyn Schneider
#50. In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of obese Americans has almost tripled; the percentage of Americans with diabetes has increased sevenfold.
Gary Taubes
#51. I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.
Lance Armstrong
#52. There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat before we talk about the percentage that's left.
Karl Lagerfeld
#53. If on-base percentage is so important, then why don't they put it up on the scoreboard?
Jeff Francoeur
#54. A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in
my own work, could be attributed to testimonies.
Raul Hilberg
#55. The one single factor that determines society's success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
Bill Drayton
#56. In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets
from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today.
Paul Zane Pilzer
#57. There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.
Jonathan Lethem
#58. I'm very hopeful that we'll see some change in our food system. I don't know how far we'll go, or how quickly we'll get there, but there is no question that a significant percentage of the American public is dissatisfied with the food system.
Michael Pollan
#59. I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.
Robin Ince
#62. What makes a good leadoff hitter? Deion Sanders had speed, but he wasn't the ideal leadoff hitter. What was his on-base percentage? The criteria shouldn't be speed, it should be getting on base.
Jack McKeon
#63. We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us on that. It's very mathematical.
Cinco Paul
#64. Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?
Sheldon Adelson
