“I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.” IfsThinkingFeelsEndsEnjoyWeekOne DayPercentIdealsThirdsDefinitionsMiserableUrgesWhere You Are Author:Jo Nesbo
“The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.” WayHumansWeekTeamPercentResourcesBest WayProductiveMore TimeCeoHuman ResourcesGreat Team Author:Kevin P. Ryan
“My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.” YearsCoursesPayKnownWeekReturnPercentMy FavoriteInvestors Author:Mitchell Zuckoff
“I was struggling at Rookie Camp to be quite honest with you. Basically, it was a week of being locked down like in jail for me. I would say about 50 percent of it was useful. The most challenging part of it was off the court. I mean, man we were just sitting there at times. We had meetings from about 10 a.m. in the morning to about 10 at night and you can't get a workout in at all.” MenMeanNightSportsChallengesMorningStruggleWeekHonestPercentSittingCourtMeetingsJailCampsLockedWorkoutRookiesMean Man Author:Andrew Bogut
“People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.” PeopleHoursWeekPercent Author:Warren Farrell
“Newt Gingrich had a horrible week in the Iowa caucuses. Only 13 percent of his ex-wives voted for him.” WifeWeekPercentHorribleExesIowaNewtsCaucusEx WifeHis Ex Author:David Letterman
“Confidence is key. You're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you. And at this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1/20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.” PeopleWantGivingFactsNextWeekKeysPercentBillsSevenTreasuryNext WeekSeven DaysTreasury BillConfidence Is Key Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of psychologists conducted a study in which they monitored the New Year's resolutions of 275 people. After one week the psychologists found that 92 percent of the people were keeping their resolutions; after two weeks we have no idea what happened because the psychologists had quit monitoring.” PeopleYearsTwoIdeasFoundSimpleStudyHappenedTroubleWeekTeamPercentQuittingNo IdeaExplanationResolutionNew YearTwo WeeksPsychologistNew Year's ResolutionsMonitoring Author:Dave Barry
“The White House is defending President Obama's sports activities over the past week, saying that everyone needs leisure time. Thanks to these economic policies, 9.5 percent of Americans have all the leisure time they need.” NeedsPastHouseSportsPresidentWhiteWeekEconomicPolicyActivityPercentThanksWhite HousePresident ObamaLeisureOver The PastEconomic PolicyLeisure Time Author:Jay Leno
“In fact, if we cut 50 percent of the liver out, it'll be back in two weeks.” IfsTwoFactsCuttingWeekPercentTwo WeeksLiver Author:Sangeeta N. Bhatia
“When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.” SaidEndsGuyFeltGoalWeekQuietHappeningsEnlightenmentPercentHundredEnlightenedEngineersSay AnythingRetreatThis GuyParticipating Author:Larkin Grimm
“Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S. is delivering at a staggeringly low rate of 44%, which is the number of full-time jobs as a percent of the adult population, 18 years and older. We need that to be 50% and a bare minimum of 10 million new, good jobs to replenish America's middle class.” NeedsYearsJobsAmericaHoursNumbersClassMillionsWeekMiddleRight NowLowsPercentAdultsOrganizationRatePopulationMiddle ClassMinimumGood JobNotableDeliveringPaychecksFull Time Jobs Author:Jim Clifton
“[People] have seen the credit market seize up. They're worried about money market funds, although the latest proposition from government should take care of that. They've seen eight percent of the bank deposits in the United States get moved very skillfully, I might say, within the last couple of weeks from institutions that they thought were fine a few months ago to other institutions. They are not wrong to be worried.” PeopleShouldStatesGovernmentMightCareLastsUnitedUnited StatesWeekFineMonthsCouplePercentInstitutionsMovedEightCreditTake CareWorriedFundPropositionsDeposits Author:Warren Buffett
“At this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1/20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.” PeopleWantGivingFactsNextWeekPercentBillsSevenTreasuryNext WeekSeven DaysTreasury Bill Author:Warren Buffett
“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.” PeopleIfsLooksSaidNextWinningPresidentGroupsWeekTeamBuildingCollegeTrumpPercentSittingVoteElectionDisasterBurningBridgesElectoral CollegeBuilding BridgesBurning Bridges Author:Jason Chaffetz
“The statistic that 67 percent of women's admissions to the psychiatric facilities are during the week before menstruation is critically important to every woman, and to every woman who feels she suffers from depression.” FeelsImportantSufferingWeekPercentFacilityAdmissionPsychiatricMenstruation Author:Ayelet Waldman
“Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.” YearsTwoSelfBodyOrderFiveWeekMonthsSixPercentSkinsYour BodyStomachChemicalsAtomsReplacedLiverTwo MonthsReplacementsMetabolismNon StopSigns Of Life Book:What is Life? Source: What is Life?
“The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.” CountryStatesResultsStudyWeekPercentErrorsJerseyMarginsNew Jersey Author:Conan O'Brien
“Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsLooksSaidI CanTurnsThreePresidentTermResultsEconomyWeekMonthsPercentYears AgoPresident ObamaThree YearsUnemploymentPropositions Author:Mitt Romney
“I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday.” MadeRunningSoundHoursWeekBalancePercentYogaHotTrainEverydayFlexibilitySurfLameSkatesDays Of The WeekHot YogaBiometrics Author:Ryan Sheckler
“If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.” IfsLittlesBookAgeWeekPercentStartingPrint Author:Lewis Buzbee
“If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.” IfsKnowsBookWeekThousandPercentLifetimeLibraryTricksOur Time Book:Cosmos Source: Cosmos