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“The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.”

People Believe Facts Shows Jobs Media Television Percent Average Profit Customers Neighborhood Fewer Twelve Good Job Eighty Margins Surveys Profit Margin

Author:L. Neil Smith

“Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.”

Bigs Company Millions Internet Capable Percent Average Size Traditional Compare Employee Revenue Offline

Author:Yuri Milner

“The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.”

Democracy Trouble Percent Average Voters

Author:Jeff Cooper

“The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that's really bothering me, so much that it almost hurts my head to try to sort it out, I always find the solution in a puddle of sweat! Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Problem Found Sports Hurt Ability Magic College Higher Exercise Solutions Percent Medicine Average Solve Productivity Intense Bother Sweat Superhero Pills Puddles

Author:Chalene Johnson

“"Average" isn't so hot at the race track given those steep track takes. "Average" is pretty decent for stocks, something like 6 percent above the inflation rate. For a buy-and -hold investor, commissions and taxes are small.”

Given Race Taxes Percent Hot Rate Average Track Decent Investors Inflation Steep Race Track

Author:William Poundstone

“On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.”

Levels Return Percent Absolutes Investing Average Assets Allocation Variability Asset Allocation

Author:Roger G. Ibbotson

“We spend about 20 percent of our total sleep time in a dream state. For most of us, this means we dream one and a half hours each night or, on the average, spend four years of our lifetime in a dream state.”

Years Mean States Dream Night Hours Sleep Half Four Percent Lifetime Average Four Years Half Hours Time To Sleep

Book:Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble

Source: Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble

“Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of around 8 percent each year through 2015 and will continue to eat up more of the total federal budget.”

Years Doe Helping Grows Percent Program Rate Congress Average Reform Budgets Medicare Medicaid

Author:John Cornyn

“A decade ago, I really did believe that the average investor could do it himself. I was wrong. I've come to the sad conclusion that only a tiny minority, at most one percent, are capable of pulling it off. Heck, if Helen Young Hayes, Robert Sanborn, Julian Robertson, and the nation's largest pension funds can't get it right, what chance does John Q. Investor have?”

Ifs Believe Doe Young Nations Chance Capable Percent Investing Average Decades Tiny Conclusion Minorities Fund Investors Pulling Pension Helen

Author:William J. Bernstein

“There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming more common. Wave heights off the coast of England have risen an average of 25 percent over the past couple of decades, which converts to a twenty-foot increase in the highest waves over the next half century. One cause may be the tightening of environmental laws, which has reduced the amount of oil flushed into the oceans by oil tankers.”

“Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.”

People Needs Company Focus Products Offers Percent Average Clever Advertising Mediocre Taglines

Author:Brian Tracy

“The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and it's not democratic. And it will fall just like communism fell. The richest 1 percent now own 50 percent of the wealth. It didn't use to be that way. The average CEO 20 years ago made 20 times as much as the average employee. Now they make 212 times as much.”

“If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance it's going to pass. Same thing for organized interest groups. But for the average voter, it's a flat line. Which says it doesn't matter whether zero percent of the public believes something or 100% of the average voters believe something - it doesn't affect the probability that that thing will be enacted.”

Ifs Believe Matter Interest Lines Chance Support Groups Lows Percent Average Organized Flats Zero Voters Elites Probability Interest Groups

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He's not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he's also disallowing about one-third of top earner's deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest. This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent.”

“The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later.”

Years Ability College Ten Draws Percent Complexes Average Complicated Graduates Literacy Inference College Graduates Lengthy

Author:Charles Colson

“My financial adviser Ric Edelman...thinks the time to start educating people about money is when they are children. He's set up a retirement plan called the RIC-E-Trust that can provide retirement security. A $5,000 one-time tax-deferred investment at birth, with an average interest rate of ten percent compounded, means that a child would have $2.4 million when he or she is 65 years old. Who needs Social Security with that kind of nest egg?”

“Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average”

Percent Increase Average Gambling Bankruptcy

Author:John Warren Kindt

“The average studies of cellphones and brain cancer have studied people who have used cellphones for five years or less. Sometimes eight years. Every study that has actually examined people who have used phones for 10 years or more, and is well designed, finds a 50 percent to an 800 percent increased risk. So that is why the Israelis, the Finnish, the French governments have all issued warnings.”

People Years Wells Sometimes Government Used Brain Study Five Risk Percent Average Phones Cancer Eight Five Years Warning Finnish Cellphone Brain Cancer

Author:Devra Davis

“President Obama's Justice Department won less than half of its total cases before the Supreme Court, which is the lowest presidential win rate since Harry Truman. Average historically for the last 50 years is about 70 percent.”

Years Lasts Winning President Justice Half Cases Percent Court Rate Average Supreme Presidential Department President Obama Lowest Supreme Court Truman Harry Truman

Author:Ted Cruz

“You got to remember, S corporations pay one layer of tax, corporations pay two layers of tax. So we basically see equivalent, but here`s the point. The rest of the world, they tax their businesses at an average rate in the industrialized world of 23 percent. Our corporate is 35. Our top S corporate, small business rate is 44.6 effectively. This is killing us.”

World Two Remember Pay Taxes Percent Killing Rate Average Corporate Corporations Layers Small Business

Author:Paul Ryan

“Much of eating is about customs and habits, and we've developed some unfortunate ones. Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. You know, the average person will eat up to 50 percent more food when distracted.”

Knows Persons Enough Together Fronts Tvs Habit Eating Percent Program Average Customs Unfortunate Distracted Average Person

Author:Mehmet Oz

“The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the average income in the world, whereas the people in the top five percent have nine times the average income. So the ratio between the averages in the top five percent and the bottom quarter is somewhere around 300 to one - a huge inequality that also gives you a sense of how easily poverty could be avoided.”

People World Giving Humans Three Poverty Five Huge Percent Bottom Average Population Nine Income Inequality Thirty Quarters Household Avoided Ratios Human Population

Author:Thomas Pogge

“Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.”

Years Heart Shows Differences Study Risk Huge Disease Percent Add Seven Average Meat Diets Pounds Vegetarian Lighters Heart Disease Vegetarian Diet

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent.”

Care Individual Cost Percent Raises Average Affordable Indiana Affordable Care Act

Author:Mike Pence

“The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.”

People Thinking Men Humans Wells Ends Race Mistake Heard Activity Percent Originals Average Positive Atheism Human Race Repetition Cliche Average Man Original Thought

Author:H. L. Mencken

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