“Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.” IfsWayTryingMightAbleMovingFunTroublePercentBallsGolfHolesEighty Author:Arnold Palmer
“The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.” DemocracyTroublePercentAverageVoters Author:Jeff Cooper
“The dynamic is unmistakable: fixed lines for phones have been declining at a three-percent rate for the last several years, while the number of Americans opting for cell phone calling keeps increasing. If you are a fixed line provider this trend means trouble. Many of the fixed mobile convergence strategies under consideration end up utilizing a smart phone or dual-mode VoWLAN/Cellular phone that works like a landline phone in the local area and then converts to cell phone calling.” IfsYearsMeanHas BeensEndsLastsThreeLinesNumbersTroubleCallingSmartPercentAreasStrategyRatePhonesLocalsCellsFixedConsiderationTrendsMobileCell PhoneProvidersConvergenceCellularUtilizingCellular Phones Author:Robert Rosenberg
“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
“It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol. It has done nothing for climate change and the business is in real trouble now with the collapse of oil prices. It's completely dependent on a dollar subsidy and tariff from the government.” RealDoneGovernmentDecisionTroublePercentIncreaseEmbraceDollarsClimateClimate ChangeOilDependentCollapseGrainCornSubsidiesTariffsEthanolOil PriceBiofuels Author:Michael Pollan
“There's a lot of research on the shift in who deals with money when families get in trouble. In good times, husbands handle the family's finances about 80 percent of the time. But when times turn sour and families start dealing with creditors and managing unpayable bills, women take more active roles.” TurnsDealsRolesTroubleHusbandResearchPercentBillsActiveHandleFinanceGood TimesSourCreditors Author:Elizabeth Warren
“If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.” IfsGuyEconomyTroublePercentJerk Author:Lee Iacocca
“In the realm of strong A.I. or in the realm of human consciousness, I think that it's been something that troubles humans or forces us to look at it over and over for millennia, or as long as we've really been conscious, because there is no answer. There is no explanation for us, even for a one percent grip to hold on to. So we just don't know why we're here, we don't know how consciousness is created.” ThinkingKnowsHumansLooksLongStrongForceAnswersConsciousnessKnow HowTroublePercentConsciousExplanationRealmsHuman Consciousness Author:Neill Blomkamp
“If you have a 50 percent match and you get in trouble financially, you can either withdraw money as a loan, or withdraw the 50 percent match. If you take it out, you have to pay taxes on it, but you still come out ahead.” IfsStillsPayTroubleTaxesPercentLoan Author:Suze Orman
“If you're not spending 80 percent of your time marketing and selling, you are headed for trouble.” IfsLifeMotivationalTroublePercentMarketingSpendingSelling Author:Mark M. Ford
“I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.” IfsBelieveWarAmericaFightingI BelieveNationsTroublePercentDollarsSoldierI Believe InDefenseFlagsAntiwarRestlessAdequateCoastline Author:Smedley Butler