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It's not the average people that come to my show. -- Young Jeezy
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. -- Colin Powell
Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them. -- Michael Bergdahl
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. -- John D. Rockefeller
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. -- John D. Rockefeller
I'd like to say it is only average people who revel in the mistakes of others. -- Sibel Kekilli
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. -- Fran Lebowitz
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. -- John C. Maxwell
On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves. -- Nate Silver
During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires. -- Thomas Frank
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life. -- Douglas Sirk
For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza! -- Jay Leno
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks. -- Daniel Kahneman
Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats. -- Dick Gephardt
Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look. -- Victor Pinchuk
Half the people you know are below average. -- Steven Wright
Unlike most other people, I'm just an average person. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people. -- Andy Andrews
Remember, half the people you know are below average. -- Larry the Cable Guy
Average people push great people out of a company. -- Jason Calacanis
Half of the people in the world are below average. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
People check their phone an average of 110x a day. -- Jay Baer
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
You become the average of the five people you hang out with. -- Drew Houston
You're the average of the five people you spend your time with. -- James Altucher
I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes. -- H. L. Mencken
The world does not reward average people so I will be extraordinary. -- Ted Nicholas
When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality. -- Paul Goodman
Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely. -- Robert Charles Wilson
Average people look forward to "getting off." Successful people look forward to "getting on." -- Jim Rohn
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. -- Jim Rohn
Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer. -- Robert Reich
In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives. -- Lee Scott
She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork. -- Art Alexakis
Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine." -- Fran Lebowitz
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure. -- John C. Maxwell
I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics. -- Stephan Pastis
A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age." -- Jaron Lanier
A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age. -- Jaron Lanier
I can reach people the average person can't reach because I'm as grounded as I am. -- DMX
On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy. -- David Ogilvy
Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces. -- Robert Kiyosaki
You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things. -- Andy Warhol
In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job. -- William Greider
Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare]. -- Rachel Martin
A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime. -- Billy Graham
Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them. -- Peter Thiel
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. -- C. J. Cherryh
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something. -- William B. Munro
Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard. -- Israelmore Ayivor
It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with. -- Sam Altman
There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature. -- Buck Martinez
This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing. -- John Morrison
Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it. -- Jim Rohn
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement. -- Larken Rose
You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them. -- Kelly Cutrone
The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require. -- Christian D. Larson
It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of. -- Hal Elrod
Average companies give their people something to work on. The most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward. -- Simon Sinek
Fans of the 'Inbetweeners' like the show because it is about four normal people, average guys or lower than average losers. -- Simon Bird
People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American. -- Gary Cooper
It's great to be in a room full of young people...The average age of the Senate, I think, is death. -- Aaron Schock
People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person. -- Gloria Gaynor
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. -- John Stuart Mill
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care. -- Epictetus
I'm only 5-foot-6, but people think I'm sort of a great big Viking woman. I'm not - I'm completely normal and average. -- Kate Winslet
There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak. -- Charles R. Swindoll
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life. -- Jack Nicholson
Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there. -- Joe Arpaio
I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people. -- David Cross
Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience. -- Lois Gibbs
Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas. -- Benjamin Franklin
I want to be more consistent. I wanna get hits. I wanna get my average back up where people think I can hit. -- Andruw Jones
Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average. -- Ryan Reynolds
As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height. -- Warwick Davis
They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can't do it longer than that because it's so difficult. -- Mariska Hargitay
Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago. -- Philip Greenspun
People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less. -- Charles Duhigg
Commit yourself to do something innovative which average people are afraid to do. Aim high and push yourself to achieve every thing you wished. -- Anil Sinha
My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many. -- Michael Scott
One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented. -- Brian Tracy
You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years. -- Dexter Holland
People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't. -- Marianne Williamson
The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does. -- Michael Gerson
The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it. -- John Ensign
We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes - while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes -- Fujio Cho
I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people. -- Steve Jobs
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution. -- Jay Leno
The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells . . . and is responsible for the livelihood of 130 people. -- Robert A. Whitney
Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average. -- Tony Dungy
I'm someone who needs more sleep than average, and I'm quite jealous of people who need only five or six hours and they're good to go. -- Jessa Gamble
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichÃ©s. -- H. L. Mencken
By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's. -- Evan Osnos
There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations. -- Daniel Tammet
Once typecast as the indispensable altarpiece of a well-appointed living room, TVs have infected every human environment. The average American household has more television sets than people. -- Seth Shostak
I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers. -- Thomas Piketty
We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit. -- John Amaechi
You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don't talk yourself out of it. -- Joel Osteen
I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors. -- Verne Troyer
Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear. -- J. Philippe Rushton
There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person. -- Clive Thompson
People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense. -- Todd Rundgren
So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough. -- Amanda Bynes
About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup. -- Brad D. Smith
One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though. -- Gregory Benford
I don't particularly like the word average because when it comes down to it there is no average in people. Everybody has their own streak of uniqueness within them. -- Matthew Carter
I guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn out to have hidden qualities. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. -- Edward de Bono
I wanted something that was really well-made but also still hitting a price point that's tangible and logical for average people - that's who I want to cater to. -- Zendaya
Technology makes good DJ's better, but also allows your average person to think they're a DJ, and unfortunately there's no checks and balances about people making it a career. -- Neil Armstrong
In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness. -- Zicheng Hong
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control. -- Joan Didion
My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky. -- Armand Hammer

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