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“A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.”

Stills Practice Building Percent Repetition Contests Percentages Building Up Mental Strength Vaults Confidence Building

Author:Bela Karolyi

“Don't we realize we're a business, we single girls are? Every building that goes up in Manhattan has more than fifty percent efficiency apartments . . . for the one million girls who have very little use for them.”

Littles Use Girl Realizing Millions Building Percent Fifty Apartment Efficiency Manhattan Single Girl

Book:Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York

Source: Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York

“Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.”

“Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.”

War Environment Building Percent Agree Architecture

Author:Frank Gehry

“Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.”

Company Vision Building Percent Strategy Visionaries Alignment

Author:James C. Collins

“I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are everywhere. Almost twenty five percent of our children live at or below the poverty line. We expect the no-option life cycle of the poor to be interrupted by the weak social safety net and then wonder why building more jails doesn't solve the problems.”

Children I Can Two Helping Problem Reality Social Lines Poor Wonder Poverty Five Building Percent Weak Twenties Our Children Safety Painful Solve Cycles Jail Twenty Five Interrupted Safety Net

Author:Peter Yarrow

“About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.”

Social Issues Building Benefits Percent Organization Climate My Time Social Issues Health Issues

Author:Richard Branson

“Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

Enough Ability Building Percent Built Climbs Good Enough Ladders Eighty Showing Up Ladder Of Success

Author:Woody Allen

“An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before they can be sold (when upgrades can be included in the new mortgage). These should encompass heating and cooling, lighting, and plug loads. Coupled with new efficiency standards for appliances, lights, and furnaces, this should reduce the energy consumption of new buildings by 50 percent, more or less immediately, and go on from there.”

“I was Chairman for two days. I had an airplane with my engines, hit a building I insured, was covered by a network I owned and I still have to increase earnings by 11 percent.”

Stills Two Building Percent Increase Covered Engines Airplane Earning Chairman Two Days

Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt

“Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.”

Building Percent Architecture Ninety

Author:Frank Gehry

“China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.”

World Cities Growing Building Development Percent India Increase Population China Around The World Overwhelming Carbon Footprint Carbon Footprint

Author:Frank Gehry

“The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.”

“On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head back out on the road. Accidents everywhere. A pileup on each of two major roads. “Welcome to winter,” one said. “When fifty percent of drivers should have their licenses temporarily suspended.”

Should Said Two Guy Walks Building Majors Percent Should Have Winter Accidents Welcome Fifty Drivers Coming Out Cop License Hustle Suspended Licenses

Author:Kelley Armstrong