Percentages Quotations

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Percentages are why I am rich.

Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business.

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.

I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today.

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.

If on-base percentage is so important, then why don't they put it up on the scoreboard?

There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

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.

If I had to put a percentage on it - I'd say not likely.

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.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.

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.

Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?

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.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

In San Diego there is a highly popular course called How to Marry Money. Note that the marriage is to money--not to a person. I inquired about the percentage of men attending... 'The course is really for women,' [the instructor replied,] 'it's not relevant to men.

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

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.