“There are companies which are prepared to change the way they work. They realize that nothing can be based on what used to be, that there is a better way. But, 99 percent of companies are not ready, [they are] caught in an industrial Jurassic Park.” WayUsedRealizingCompanyReadyPercentPreparedCaughtUsed To BeParksBetter WaysNot ReadyJurassic Park Author:Ricardo Semler
“The first splurge of creativity is kind of free, and the last 30 percent is painstakingly hard work, but it's good to light a fire and make it public and create that expectation. It's become part of the writing process, really, a way to ask the audience what they think, how they think it's going. I can't write songs in a vacuum.” ThinkingWayWritingFirstsKindI CanHardLightLastsSongAsksProcessCreativityAudienceFireHard WorkExpectationsPercentWriting ProcessVacuums Author:Andrew Bird
“Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.” WayWantFeelsTryingI CanHelpingGamesTeamPercentBasesStealingLooking Forward Author:Carlos Beltran
“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
“It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income tax on her interest income during a period of zero inflation or pays no income tax during years of 5 percent inflation. Either way, she is 'taxed' in a manner that leaves her no real income whatsoever. Any money she spends comes right out of capital. She would find outrageous a 100 percent income tax but doesn't seem to notice that 5 percent inflation is the economic equivalent.” WayYearsRealSeemsInterestDifferencesPayEconomicPeriodsTaxesPercentAccountsIncomeSavingZeroInflationSavingsOutrageousWidowsIncome Tax Author:Warren Buffett
“Well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you - if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers - the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.” IfsThinkingWayWellsMatterWould BeOrderHalfProjectsPercentToolsBoxesCustomersProductivityImprovementCodeBurnedTestingCdsDocumentation Author:Fred Brooks
“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
“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
“We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.” WayNeedsGivingGovernmentRunningUsedCitiesNew YorkTaxesPercentConceptsResponsibleRaisesFinancialSolveNew York CityApplicationSanityRevenueSales Tax Author:Eliot Spitzer
“When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.” IfsWayTryingPlayCharacterImpossibleModernNormalPercentGravityJeansCostumesDiminishLarger Than LifeCenter Of Gravity Author:Ray Stevenson
“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
“Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that - females are marketed in a way that they're these independent unique artists writing their own stuff, and they're not, because fourteen percent of PRS goes to women.” WayWritingArtistStuffUniquePercentFemaleIndependentMalesComposerFewerSongwritersFourteen Author:Kate Nash
“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
“The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.” ThinkingMenWayBehindsHalfDemocracyTvsNewsPercentThanksTwinsTowersSaddamHusseinPollsCalamityHalf TruthTwin Towers Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“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
“Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten up in the middle of the night for a shoot, something good always presents itself to offset the nagging tiredness and discomfort of losing sleep.” WayIdeasNightSleepMiddleLosingPercentNineDawnGood IdeasNinetyDiscomfortMiddle Of The NightNinety NineNaggingTiredness Author:Peter Menzel
“When you can, it's good to make healthy choices. But, I also believe in balance. It's not about being 100 percent this way or that way. It's about making healthy choices when you can.” WayBelieveChoicesBalanceHealthyPercentHealthy Choices Author:Miranda Kerr
“The first thing I'd do [as a president] is de-regulate about 90-percent of the things that they've got regulation on, OK, including duck hunting. We're way over-regulated on everything.” WayFirstsPresidentPercentIncludingHuntingDucksRegulationDuck Hunting Author:Si Robertson
“There's always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.” PeopleThinkingWayTruth IsPercent Author:Adam McKay
“It's more about balance for me. I used to be an all or nothing person. And now I would rather have a lifestyle change - rather than use the word 'diet' - where 90 percent of the time spend my life that way and 10 percent of the time have fun and do what my body feels like it needs or craves.” WayNeedsFeelsPersonsUseBodyUsedFunBalancePercentLifestyleUsed To BeHaving FunDietsCraveLifestyle Change Author:Julianne Hough
“I eat organic and cook my food whenever possible, and I live by the 80/20 rule. Eighty percent of the time I'm Stash all the way, 20 percent I enjoy the things I want.” WayWantEnjoyPercentCooksLive ByEighty Author:Laura Prepon
“There was an analyst who came out the other day who's had a long track record of projecting presidential campaigns based on the economy and other kind of factors. And he said if [Donald] Trump stays about where he is right now, he'll win at about 51 or 52 percent. If Trump actually gets his act together in a disciplined way, he could win by as much as 66 percent.” IfsWayKindLongSaidTogetherWinningEconomyRecordsTrumpRight NowPercentTrackCampaignsFactorsPresidentialAnalystsTrack RecordPresidential Campaign Author:Newt Gingrich
“I've had my fill of "One Way To Rock" or "I Can't Drive 55." Those are guy songs to me, and I'm cool with that. But when you write a great love song and you start seeing that 50 percent of your audience is beautiful women, that's much more rewarding, than having a bunch of guys out there.” WayWritingI CanBeautifulGuySongAudienceSeeingRocksPercentBunchOne WayBeautiful WomenGreat Love Author:Sammy Hagar
“The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42.4 percent of black women in America aren't married. Black women are shooting up the corporate ladder way faster than our black male counterparts. And (black men) are either dating outside their race, in jail or dying. And so if you want to have a family, you want to be married, you have to look at other options.” IfsMenWayWantYearsLooksInspirationAmericaBlackRaceDyingCoupleMarriedPercentYears AgoDatingMalesFasterShootingCorporateSomething NewJailArticlesBlack WomenLaddersBeing MarriedCounterpartsBlack MalesShooting Up Author:Sanaa Lathan
“I don't think it's necessarily 100-percent true. But comic books have infiltrated the mainstream Hollywood in ways that I don't think I ever would have seen or thought imaginable a while ago. But it's also cyclical. You saw it in the '80s when it became kind of huge again. And then it disappears for a while, then it comes back again, then it disappears for a while. So yeah, there's something about that.” ThinkingWayKindBookSawsHugePercentHollywoodYeahDisappearComicMainstreamComic Book80sBack Again Author:Ryan Reynolds
“Oil production, energy production are growing, though the latter has gone down by about 1 percent here, I believe... By the way, we occupy the first place in the world in gas export, accounting for 20 percent of the world market. We are also first in the sphere of liquid hydrocarbons export.” WorldWayFirstsBelieveEnergyI BelieveGoneGrowingPercentProductionsOilGasLatterSpheresLiquidAccountingPlaces In The WorldHydrocarbonsOil ProductionEnergy Production Author:Vladimir Putin
“The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's the other reason that they're fighting it is the corporate prisons they have now. Because they've privatized all our prisons, corporations have to make money, and the only way they can make money is, I believe, the prisons have to be at least 80-90 percent full. That's why the United States - which is home of the brave, land of the free - we have more people in prison than any other country in the world.” PeopleWorldWayBelieveWarCountryStatesReasonHomeFightingI BelieveCausesUnitedUnited StatesLandCrimeDrugPercentOriginalsPrisonBraveMaking MoneyCorporateCorporationsOther CountriesWar On DrugsLand Of The Free Author:Jesse Ventura
“The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two-way flow of trade, technology and investment.” ThinkingWayTwoOpportunityTechnologyEconomyGrowingPercentFlowTradeInvestmentRateEnormousChineseIndianTwo Ways Author:Manmohan Singh
“Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.” PeopleWayNeedsTwoDifferentHelpingPassionFunChildhoodTypePercentAreasThirdsAddictionDefinitionsIllnessTraumaPunishmentMental IllnessSevereBetter WaysCoping Author:Maia Szalavitz
“More than 60 percent of small businesses face payment delays. That can cause a serious cash flow crisis. So, as president, I will explore new ways to arm small businesses with the tools to fight back and level the playing field.” WayFacesFightingCausesPresidentLevelsFieldsSeriousArmsPercentFlowToolsCrisisCashNew WaysDelaySmall BusinessPaymentPlaying FieldsCash Flow Author:Hillary Clinton
“Now 10 percent of this population [in Iceland] of 330,000 people were born elsewhere - Polish, North Africans, Europeans, Americans - people are coming from all over. It is still changing society in a good way.” PeopleWayStillsBornPercentPopulationOver ItElsewherePolishGood WayIceland Author:Sjon
“Jill Stein, is - and I'll make it in a personal way - over eighty percent of the people when I ran for President knew about me but then I realized that when I was running, eighty percent of the people didn't even know I was running.” PeopleKnowsWayRunningPresidentPercentI RealizedRanEightyJill Stein Author:Ralph Nader
“If I got a chance to take one percent of the deal either way, I would make that bet.” IfsWayChanceDealsPercent Author:Warren Buffett
“And people really behaved in a fraudulent way or something, we'll go back and find the culprits later on. But that really isn't the problem we have. I mean that's where it came from, though. We leveraged up and if you have a 20 percent fall in value of a $20 trillion asset, that's $4 trillion. And when $4 trillion lands - losses land in the wrong part of this economy, it can gum up the whole place.” PeopleIfsWayMeanWholeProblemValuesFallLossEconomyLandPercentAssetsGumCulprit Author:Warren Buffett
“I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.” WayTrumpPercentAfrican AmericanFlip Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“I mean, let's look at it in the other way. If they claim that words have this mysterious power over people, well, 99 percent of on the songs on the radio deal with the topic of love and we use the term loosely. So, kids have heard love, love, love, love ... the minute they turn on the radio. Do you see any kids doing love? I see them doing crack ... but not love. So, it's bullshit!” PeopleIfsWayWellsLooksMeanUseKidsSongTurnsTermDealsHeardMinutesPercentClaimsRadioMysteriousCracksBullshitTopicsTurn-on Author:Frank Zappa
“We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be struck and think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach to protecting privacy don't recognize that governments are going to be under an enormous burden to prevent the kinds of terrorist acts that not only harm individuals, but also can distort our society and our politics in very dangerous ways.” ThinkingWayKindGovernmentIndividualIssuesSecurityDangerousBalanceApproachPercentBurdenHarmTerroristEnormousPrivacyOur SocietyPrivacy And Security Author:Barack Obama
“We've seen tremendous progress in many ways under President [Barack] Obama. I mean, if we think about where the economy was when he got in - you know, we were losing more than 700,000 jobs a month. The unemployment rate was skyrocketing. And now it's at under 5 percent, so there is a lot of progress that has happened.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayMeanJobsPresidentEconomyProgressHappenedMonthsLosingPercentRateBarackUnemploymentPresident Barack ObamaUnemployment Rate Author:Julian Castro
“We're still fighting to make sure that basic anti-discrimination laws are enforced, not just at the federal level, by the way, but throughout government and throughout the private sector? And those are fights that we can win because - and this is where I do believe America has changed - the majority, not by any means 100 percent, but the majority of Americans believe in the idea of nondiscrimination.” WayBelieveMeanStillsIdeasGovernmentAmericaLawFightingWinningLevelsChangedPercentMajorityDiscriminationPrivate SectorAnti Discrimination Author:Barack Obama
“There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat. And for me, and I would not be surprised if a lot of women feel this same way, it's this thing of not being 100 percent comfortable with myself.” IfsWorldWayFeelsCertainThis WorldComfortablePercentDefeat Author:Alicia Keys
“Our tax plan by the way shows the vast, vast majority of Americans, upwards of 96 percent can fill out their taxes on a postcard.” WayShowsPlansTaxesPercentMajorityPostcards Author:Paul Ryan
“If you have a patient in a doctor's office who's just been told they have terminal cancer but there's this operation they could perform right now that might save their lives. ... They have a 90 percent chance of surviving the operation — if you tell them that, they respond one way. If you tell them ... that they have a 10 percent chance of being killed by the operation, they are about three times less likely to have the operation.” IfsWayMightThreeChanceRight NowOfficePercentDoctorsPatientCancerOne WayOperationsThree TimesSurvivingTerminalTerminal Cancer Author:Michael Lewis
“[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, in his rather undiplomatic way, demanded that Washington bring words and actions together into a coherent, 100 percent pro-Israeli policy. Obama, apparently still having faith in a "two-state solution," refused to do this.” WayStillsTwoStatesActionTogetherPolicySolutionsPercentMinistersPrimeHave FaithPrime MinisterIsraeliWords And Actions Author:Lawrence Davidson
“For the three decades after WWII, incomes grew at about 3 percent a year for people up and down the income ladder, but since then most income growth has occurred among the top quintile. And among that group, most of the income growth has occurred among the top 5 percent. The pattern repeats itself all the way up. Most of the growth among the top 5 percent has been among the top 1 percent, and most of the growth among that group has been among the top one-tenth of one percent.” PeopleWayYearsHas BeensThreeGrowthGroupsGrewPercentPatternsDecadesIncomeRepeatsLaddersUp And DownWwii Author:Robert H. Frank
“Whenever you hear me talk about anything, you never know what I'm going to say until the words come out of my mouth. I'm not one of these Rush Limbaugh individuals, you know what he's going to say before it comes out of his mouth. Whatever the Democrats say, not 99 percent of the time, 100 percent of the time, he's on the opposite side. That's not the way I am.” KnowsWayIndividualSidesMouthsPercentOppositesDemocrat Author:Vincent Bugliosi
“Even when I go shopping, I don't shop as a woman. The only time I shop is when I need something, and I'm in and out in less than 30 minutes, so I have no energy to look at 50 million gowns and styles and make sketches and think about heels. I'm not girly in that way. I'm relying on the stylist to do 99 percent of the work.” ThinkingWayNeedsLooksEnergyMillionsMinutesStylePercentShopsShoppingHeelsOnly TimeGownsStylistGirlyNo Energy Author:Viola Davis
“In 1949, the country of Palestine was partitioned after the war in such a way that the State of Israel-proper consisted of 78 percent of this country of Palestine. What was left to the Arabs was 22 percent, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.” WayWarCountryStatesLeftPercentWestIsraelPalestineGazaGaza Strip Author:Uri Avnery
“The American people are beginning to see the Republicans' willingness to trample over 200 years of history, to step on the minority, to push everybody out of the way because they want 100 percent. It's rubbing the American people the wrong way. One-party rule is not good.” PeopleWayWantYearsPartyStepsRepublicanPercentMinoritiesWillingnessWrong Way Author:Barbara Boxer
“There's an effort on the part of many people to attack women's rights, women's health, and the ability to control our own lives. No doubt about it. And it is not a majority of the country, in any way, shape, or form. I know on the contraceptive issue, 70 percent of the country agrees with me. Will that stop my opponents? No. Because they are so radical. They chip away and chip away.” PeopleKnowsWayCountryFormAbilityEffortIssuesDoubtRightsShapesPercentAgreeMajorityRadicalOpponentsNo DoubtWomens RightsChipsContraceptivesWomen's Health Author:Barbara Boxer
“The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process. We have to increase voter turnout and citizen participation so that people know what's going on and demand a government that works for everybody and not just the one percent.” PeopleKnowsWayGovernmentHappensPoliticalProcessCitizensInvolvedDemandPercentIncreaseVotersParticipationVoter Turnout Author:Bernie Sanders