“...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.” IfsThinkingSuccessWinningAttitudeSuccessfulPlansFailingPercentPreparationConcrete Author:Peter James
“A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.” LosesWealthResultsFailingProduceTaxesBeatsPercentGainsInvestingFundDestroyingMarginsAnnualsVanguardIndex Funds Author:David F. Swensen
“One thing that I've realized is that you're never going to be 100 percent successful. You're always going to be let down. When you have God in your life and you follow Christ, you're never going to be let down. Every time that you fail, He's there to pick you right back up. Every time you think the world's going to end because you had a couple of bad games, God's there to remind you that's not what it's all about.” ThinkingWorldEndsGamesChristSuccessfulFailingOne ThingCouplePicksPercentLet DownBad Games Author:Mark Teixeira
“Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.” IfsFailingPolicyFamePercentBaseballHallsForeign PolicyHittingHall Of Fame Author:Robert Kagan
“Ninety percent of those who fail are not actually defeated; they simply quit. ... As you face bad experiences, it's important for you to remember that you can rarely see the benefits while you're in the midst of them. You usually gain perspective on the other side of it.” ImportantRememberFacesSidesFailingPerspectiveBenefitsPercentGainsQuittingMidstDefeatedNinetyBad Experiences Author:John C. Maxwell
“If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.” IfsFailingCapablePercentBlockKeep GoingSeventies Author:Mike Lowell
“In natural pregnancy, more than half of fertilized eggs fail to implant or are otherwise lost. Should we regard that as an instance of infant mortality? And if so, why are we not mounting ambitious public health campaigns to try to save and rescue all of the fertilized eggs that are lost in natural pregnancy? We would need a public health campaign of massive proportions if there really were over a fifty percent rate of infant mortality.” IfsNeedsShouldTryingLostNaturalHalfFailingPercentRegardRateCampaignsInstanceProportionFiftyEggsMassiveMortalityPregnancyAmbitiousRescueInfantPublic HealthImplantsInfant Mortality Author:Michael Sandel
“The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.” FailingTruth IsPercentScaryFundMutualMutual Fund Author:Tony Robbins
“A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.” YearsHumansWellsHas BeensTodayHumanityCulturePleasurePovertyFailingCostStandardsPercentHundredYears AgoWell BeingOur TimeSevereCould Have BeenStandards Of LivingAffluent Author:Thomas Pogge
“The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.” NeedsGivingShowsFailingPercentCamerasLawyerAgentsManagersFlatsPlusCaptureShow BusinessSalaryFeesPublicists Author:Danica McKellar
“Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.” WellsAmericaRomanceSituationAliveFailingPercentComplexesSelfishness Author:Donny Osmond