Percentages Quotes

Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it's only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.

A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in my own work, could be attributed to testimonies.

Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business.

In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of obese Americans has almost tripled; the percentage of Americans with diabetes has increased sevenfold.

The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.

Don't just give me an advance. I want a percentage.

A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.

There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

I'm very hopeful that we'll see some change in our food system. I don't know how far we'll go, or how quickly we'll get there, but there is no question that a significant percentage of the American public is dissatisfied with the food system.

Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?

I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.

My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

Percentages are why I am rich.

The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

If on-base percentage is so important, then why don't they put it up on the scoreboard?

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.

On-base percentage really doesn't mean that much.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.

If I had to put a percentage on it - I'd say not likely.

In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.

If Mitt Romney had got the percentage Ronald Reagan did of Hispanics, he would have defeated Barack Obama.

We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us on that. It's very mathematical.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.

Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easily.