“If I go down, it's never easy. At least my opponent knows they have to go to the end of the earth to take me out no matter what the circumstances. I do try to compete. Even if it's not your best day, I just try to walk off the court knowing I gave 100,000 percent.” IfsKnowsTryingEndsMatterEarthEasyWalksKnowingCircumstancesPercentNo Matter WhatCourtOpponentsTake Me Author:Venus Williams
“If your company matches your 401(k) contribution, then no matter what, contribute to your 401(k) first. You put in a dollar, they put in 50 cents. It's an automatic 50 percent return on your money. You can't pass that up. I'd rather have the 50 percent than pay 32 percent interest on a credit card.” IfsFirstsMatterInterestPayCompanyReturnPercentNo Matter WhatDollarsCreditCardsContributionCentsCredit Card Author:Suze Orman
“I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.” ThinkingShouldMatterPercentNo Matter WhatFiftySeafoodRaw Food Author:Brett Dennen
“No matter what you're doing, you're never 100 percent about anything. Every choice is always accompanied by a certain amount of worry or doubt. Until it reaches a certain threshold, you don't act on it; you just sort of carry it with you, and wait to see if it reaches the threshold when you should act. Otherwise, you just become one of those worrywarts, a nervous Nellie who isn't very helpful.” IfsShouldMatterCertainChoicesWaitingWorryDoubtAmountPercentNo Matter WhatNervousHelpfulThresholdDoing You Author:Glen Berger
“10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.” MatterPercentNo Matter WhatMovedPopulationMerciful Author:Susan Sontag
“It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.” WorldDifferentMatterReasonRealizingCommonRaceFocusConflictPercentNo Matter WhatComplicatedGenderBackgroundsInabilityContentious Book:Every Day Source: Every Day
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.” PeopleBelieveMatterGovernmentCarePoliticsNamesPresidentResponsibilityPercentVoteNo Matter WhatVictimHealth CareDependentEntitledHousingPresidential Election2012 Election Author:Mitt Romney
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.” PeopleMatterPresidentPercentVoteElectionNo Matter WhatPresidential ElectionGangnam StyleMoochers Author:Mitt Romney