“I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won't come into your house and steal your children. They won't magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster. They won't even overthrow the government in an orgy of hedonistic debauchery because all of a sudden they have the same legal rights as the other 90 percent of our population ... you know what having these rights will make gays? Full-fledged American citizens just like everyone else, with the freedom to pursue happiness and all that entails.” PeopleKnowsChildrenI CanGovernmentTurnsHouseRightsEffectsCitizensGayMarriedPercentOur ChildrenPopulationStealingPursueYour ChildrenZeroGay PeopleGetting MarriedAmerican CitizensLustfulDebaucheryHedonisticLegal Rights Author:Chris Kluwe
“If you have loans, the first thing you want to do is say, "Okay, look I have a credit card, if I really need to borrow, I have this emergency money that I can get, but for now there is no reason for me to keep cash at zero percent interest rate and at the same time, pay all of this money out. So, I think people need to figure out quickly how to pay loans and how much cash they should really keep.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsShouldFirstsLooksI CanReasonInterestPayFiguresPercentOkayRateCreditCardsNo ReasonZeroCashEmergenciesLoanCredit CardInterest Rate Author:Dan Ariely
“I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.” PeopleKnowsWayCertainActorsSidesWalksBehindsStrangeBalanceHappeningsPercentOppositesMarkCamerasProfoundLitBehind YouMovie Actors Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds.” PeopleMindAmericaPercentEuropeVictimExpertsNorth America Author:John Leo
“The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.” PeopleFactsCarePastPayTaxesPercentDollarsDebtTax DollarsOverspending Author:Carol Roth
“Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason.” PeopleReasonLosesPercentEightyOld Friends Book:Conversations with Capote Source: Conversations with Capote
“What does a political revolution look like? It means that 80 percent of the people vote in national elections, not 40 percent. It means that billionaires can't make unlimited campaign contributions and buy and sell politicians. It means that the U.S. government represents the needs of all the people, not just the 1 percent and their lobbyists.” PeopleNeedsLooksMeanDoeGovernmentPoliticalRevolutionPoliticianPercentVoteElectionSellsCampaignsContributionUnlimitedBillionaireLobbyistsPolitical RevolutionCampaign Contributions Author:Bernie Sanders
“This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.” PeopleFeelsPersonsTwoEndsWeaponsPercentHandleFiftyPrimitivePainless Author:Alfred Hitchcock
“When people ask, "Why should the rich pay a larger percent of their income than middle-income people?" - my answer is not an answer most people get: It's because their power developed from laws that enriched them.” PeopleShouldLawAsksAnswersPayRichMiddlePercentIncome Author:Ralph Nader
“Most people are oblivious to F.A. Hayek's insight that the critical information needed to run an economy - or even 15 percent of one - doesn't exist in any one place where it is accessible to central planners. Instead, it is scattered piecemeal among millions of people. All those people put together are far wiser and better informed than Congress could ever be. Only markets - private property, free exchange and the price system - can put this knowledge at the disposal of entrepreneurs and consumers, ensuring the system will serve the people and not just the political class.” PeopleRunningTogetherPoliticalClassMillionsEconomyInformationNeededPercentEntrepreneurPropertyCongressInsightCriticalConsumersWiserPrivate PropertyObliviousPlannersHayek Author:John Stossel
“There are three important principles to Graham's approach. [The first is to look at stocks as fractional shares of a business, which] gives you an entirely different view than most people who are in the market. [The second principle is the margin-of-safety concept, which] gives you the competitive advantage. [The third is having a true investor's attitude toward the stock market, which] if you have that attitude, you start out ahead of 99 percent of all the people who are operating in the stock market - it's an enormous advantage.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsLooksImportantDifferentThreeViewsAttitudePrinciplesShareApproachPercentConceptsAdvantageThirdsSafetyEnormousInvestorsMarginsCompetitive AdvantageDifferent Views Author:Warren Buffett
“Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure is on to lower that even further. And this just doesn't make a great deal of sense. When people say, 'Oh, we can't raise taxes on the rich. They'll go on strike, they'll move to another country.' But within recent memory, it hasn't been that long ago that we had rates that were substantially higher. And these people did just fine. I just think that there's a disconnect between the facts of what taxes do and the sort of mythology of what they do.” PeopleThinkingLongCountryFactsMovingMemoriesDealsRichFineGoes OnHigherTaxesPercentPressureRaisesRateStrikesMythologyLong Ago Author:Bruce Bartlett
“We are using new technologies in meaningful ways. To build our new refinery in 60 percent of the time it took to build our first, we are training 20,000 people in a new generation of welding technology in six months.” PeopleWayFirstsTechnologyGenerationsMonthsSixTrainingPercentMeaningfulSix MonthsNew TechnologyNew GenerationRefineryWelding Author:Mukesh Ambani
“Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear.” PeopleIfsProblemPercentDisappear Author:William Schutz
“We have 11 million people said to be in our country illegally. Forty percent of them are said to have overstayed their visa. Do we know where they are?” PeopleKnowsSaidCountryMillionsPercentOur CountryFortyVisa Author:Rand Paul
“People inside the theaters usually, not 100 percent but most of them, enjoy the movie. Usually they come with a small negative view. In a way, they're prepared to get bored because it's silent and because it's black and white. So they are much more pleased to be entertained in a way. They're very happy when they go out. This was my job. For the other ones, I can do nothing except screen the movie and hope that they will say to their friends that it's not so [bad].” PeopleWayI CanJobsEnjoyBlackCan DoWhiteViewsPercentNegativeTheaterPreparedSilentScreensBoredBlack And WhiteVery Happy Author:Michel Hazanavicius
“What we have got to do immediately is to say that racism and xenophobia is totally unacceptable and we will stand with the 1 percent of our population who are Muslims, for undocumented people in this country. Absolutely, we will stand.” PeopleCountryRacismPercentPopulationXenophobia Author:Bernie Sanders
“Most people consider themselves above the gritty and relentless details of life that allow the creation of great wealth. They leave it to the experts. But in general you join the one percent of the one percent not by leaving it to the experts but by creating new expertise, not by knowing what the experts know but by learning what they think is beneath them.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWealthKnowingCreationCreatingPercentLeavingDetailsExpertsRelentlessExpertiseDetails Of Life Book:Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century Source: Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
“Real divas give 150 percent. If they don't have the right dress, they'll go out in whatever they have. If there are no microphones, they'll still put on a show. They are people who put their heart and soul in what they do.” PeopleIfsGivingHeartStillsRealSoulShowsPercentDressesHeart And SoulMicrophones Author:Patti LaBelle
“By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.” PeopleNeedsFirstsSchoolJobsYoungReadyPercentHigh SchoolWorkersGraduatesGraduating High School Author:Bill Gates
“One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?” PeopleWellsDifferentGovernmentPercentSupposed To BeChineseStatisticsApprovalChinese Government Author:Bill Gates
“It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.” PeopleWorldEnergyGoalPerfectLevelsFiveAchieveEasierPicksPercentLonelyAimRaisesCompetitionConvincedNineBarsGreat ThingsRealisticIncapableMediocreNinetyConsumingNinety NineTime ConsumingRealistic GoalsLonely At The Top Author:Tim Ferriss
“We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.” PeopleFirstsLongTodayNumbersPercentExpensiveFirst LoveUnemploymentFundraiser Author:Jesse Jackson
“I think in some ways it would make more sense to have as a poverty level a relative concept and say, the level of poverty is that level of income or that level of consumption below which 10 percent of the people now are.” PeopleThinkingWayLevelsPovertyPercentConceptsIncomeRelativeConsumption Author:Milton Friedman
“And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.” PeopleThinkingGodPoliticalChurchPercentDrivenOrientation Author:T. D. Jakes
“Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have a 100 percent fluency in being able to do to do this - this kind of magical reaction with a camera.” PeopleWayKindLittlesTwoAbleStreetsPercentCamerasReactionsThrowingTwo WaysGemsGrabbingPortraitureFluencyTwo Way Street Author:Albert Watson
“When it comes to popping pills, probably 90 percent bad. And people say they're not addictive - I still have yearnings for them. Especially after a few pints. I don't think you ever lose the yearning for them.” PeopleThinkingStillsLosesPercentYearningPillsPintsPopping Author:Damien Dempsey
“The US is a country [in which] eighty percent of the population thinks the Bible was written by god. About half think every word is literally true. So it's had to appeal to that - and to the nativist population, the people that are frightened, have always been... It's a very frightened country and that's increasing now with the recognition that the white population is going to be a minority pretty soon, "they've taken our country from us."” PeopleThinkingCountryWhiteHalfTakenWrittenPercentPopulationOur CountryRecognitionAppealsMinoritiesFrightenedEighty Author:Noam Chomsky
“Private sector unionization is down to practically seven percent. Meanwhile the public sector unions have kind of sustained themselves [even] under attack, but in the last few years, there's been a sharp [increase in the] attack on public sector unions, which Barack Obama has participated in, in fact. When you freeze salaries of federal workers, that's equivalent to taxing public sector people.” PeopleYearsKindFactsLastsPercentIncreaseUnionsSevenWorkersBarackSalaryFreezePrivate SectorPublic Sector Author:Noam Chomsky
“Google AdWords help with targeting people. Social media makes it easy to find people. A lot of people write blogs as a hobby. Others do it to make money. Instead of advertising on a blog, do a revenue share where you give them a 10-percent share for the business you receive.” PeopleGivingWritingHelpingSocialEasyShareMediaPercentSocial MediaAdvertisingMaking MoneyGoogleHobbiesRevenueBlogs Author:Cameron Johnson
“As far as the refugees are concerned, it's not that America doesn't want to accept refugees.t's that we may not be able to, because this is an issue we have to be 100 percent right on. If we allow 9,999 Syrian refugees into the United States, and all of them are good people, but we allow one person in who's an ISIS killer - we just get one person wrong, we've got a serious problem.” PeopleIfsWantMayPersonsStatesProblemAbleAmericaUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesIssuesSeriousPercentConcernedGood PeopleKillersRefugeeIsisSyrian Refugees Author:Marco Rubio
“At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end of the Great Migration, nearly half of them were living outside the South in the great cities of the North and West. So when this migration began, you had a really small number of people who were living in the North and they were surviving as porters or domestics or preachers - some had risen to levels of professional jobs - but they were, in some ways, protected because they were so small.” PeopleWayEndsJobsLevelsNumbersCitiesHalfCenturyPercentWestSouthAfrican AmericanProtectedPreacher20th CenturySurvivingRisenMigrationGreat CitiesSmall Numbers Author:Isabel Wilkerson
“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?” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsKindMeanChildrenSocialInterestMillionsPlansSecurityBirthTenTaxesPercentInvestmentRateFinancialAverageEggsRetirementOne TimeSocial SecurityNestsInterest RateAdviser Author:Cal Thomas
“The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.” PeopleMayPercentPerformancesAccountsInteractionPerformance Review Author:W. Edwards Deming
“I don't think that Saddam Hussein is deliberately starving his own people. I would think that a man who gets 99 percent of the people to vote for him in an election and the people love him so much, how would they love a man that is starving them?” PeopleThinkingMenPercentVoteElectionSaddamHusseinStarving Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The voice-over world has changed radically in the time that I've been in it. It used to be this rather small, select group of people who did 90 percent of the work. Now it's kind of the reverse: 90 percent of the work is done by this very broad mix of people all over the country, and the guys who used to be the go-to guys are a much smaller percentage now. But there was this massive interest in voice-over as well as in the story, so I think that also added to the film's appeal.” PeopleThinkingWorldWellsKindCountryDoneStoriesFilmUsedGuyVoiceInterestGroupsChangedPercentUsed To BeAppealsMassiveBroadsReversePercentagesSelectVoice Over Author:Fred Melamed
“Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.” PeopleYoungNumbersStudyGrewInternetPercentUniversityDuesGamblingExposurePennsylvaniaUniversity Of Pennsylvania Author:Spencer Bachus
“Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy, angry, stressed. So it's really hard to call this specific neurotransmitter "the pleasure neurotransmitter."” PeopleHardPleasureBrainPercentAngryPortionsStressedDopamineNeurotransmitters Author:Carl Hart
“Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't use the drug at higher rates and even though their numbers in the general population are so low. How could that be? The thing is, you place all your resources in communities of color. And if you do that, you're going to arrest black people.” PeopleIfsUseBlackCommunityNumbersPolicyColorHigherDrugLowsPercentResourcesRatePopulationCracksBlack PeopleNinetyArrestedCocaine Author:Carl Hart
“Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a 13 percent wealth tax on wealthy people to retire the national debt.” PeopleRunningLeftPresidentWealthTrumpTaxesPercentDebtWealthyRetiringConsideringNational Debt Author:Chris Hayes
“I read a recent statistic that eighty-seven percent of women are dissatisfied with themselves, and over forty-seven percent of men. My work is visu-medicine to heal people and see beauty within people.” PeopleMenPercentMedicineSevenHealFortyEightyDissatisfiedBeauty Within Author:Jamel Shabazz
“For someone to promise a percentage type cure for this issue, for instance I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent permanent - in all caps PERMANENT - reduction of their same-sex attraction. How can we quantify that? How can you even know that that's what you have experienced? And what if at some point you fall to 85 percent or 70 percent? That, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I'm not willing to offer when we're sharing these types of messages or presenting what was presented to me.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsSaidFallSexIssuesWillingTypePromiseOffersMessagesExpectationsPercentAttractionCuresInstancePermanentWhat IfPercentagesCapsReductionPresentingUnrealistic Expectations Author:Alan Chambers
“When I said on national television I still struggle, a reparative therapist called me and said if you'll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent. And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they're struggling.” PeopleIfsSaidStillsI CanHelpingProcessStruggleTelevisionOffersPercentAttractionCuresTemptationTherapyHomosexualPornographyTherapistsTherapeutic Author:Alan Chambers
“I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life. I am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don't need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life. I'm grateful for people's opinions but I choose to surrender and to serve Christ and Christ alone and in that my life has changed.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMenWantNeedsBelieveLooksMadeBeliefI BelieveChristOpinionChangedPercentGratefulGuidesSurrenderDaily LifeTheologianWholeheartedlyGuide MeLife Has ChangedChrist Alone Author:Alan Chambers
“Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.” PeopleWantIdeasArtistSongPercentBad People Author:Matt Corby
“Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidTwoBigsThreeNumbersGoneOne ThingChangedMonthsPercentYears AgoTerrorismTerroristNewspapersArticlesThree YearsPakistanCiviliansHeadlinesCivilian Deaths Author:Mohsin Hamid
“People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women.” PeopleYoungPercentTeenagerPanthersOver 50 Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.
“The reality is that we have one of lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth because so many people have given up on the political process. The reality is that there has been trillions of dollars of wealth going from the middle class in the last 30 years to the top 1/10th of 1 percent.” PeopleYearsHas BeensCountryRealityEarthLastsPoliticalGivenProcessWealthClassMiddleMajorsPercentDollarsMiddle ClassVotersLowestGiven UpVoter Turnout Author:Bernie Sanders
“We've had a number of economists supporting our legislation. And here's where we are. The American people can judge. Six largest financial institutions in America today have assets of roughly $10 trillion; equivalent to 58 percent of the GDP of the United States of America.” PeopleStatesTodayAmericaUnitedNumbersUnited StatesJudgingSixPercentInstitutionsFinancialAssetsUnited States Of AmericaLegislationEconomistGdpAmerica TodayFinancial Institutions Author:Bernie Sanders
“I am 100 percent confident. This is a security review that was requested. It is being carried out. It will be resolved. But I have to add if there's going to be a security review about me, there's going to have to be security reviews about a lot of other people, including Republican office holders, because we've got this absurd situation of retroactive classifications.” PeopleIfsSituationSecurityRepublicanOfficePercentAddIncludingAbsurdReviewsClassification Author:Hillary Clinton