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Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning. -- David M. Shoup
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. -- Jeff Bezos
Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage. -- Suze Orman
The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985. -- Serj Tankian
Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids. -- Bill Gates
It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't. -- Paulo Freire
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP. -- Bill Gross
What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans. -- Timothy Radcliffe
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low. -- Bill Gates
The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage. -- Amitabh Bachchan
There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge. -- Alain Robert
People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes. -- Thomas Sowell
There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers. -- Andrzej Wajda
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting. -- Hank Aaron
A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying. -- Douglas Coupland
Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity. -- Chris Van Allsburg
The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams. -- Steve Winwood
One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York. -- Mike Judge
Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble. -- Steve Forbes
The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate. -- Michael Nesmith
The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%. -- Jack Welch
A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren't keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning. -- Ricardo Semler
Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy. -- Sheryl Sandberg
We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S. -- Eduardo Galeano
The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -- Herman Cain
The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It's nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap. -- John Battelle
Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share. -- Simon Sinek
On-base percentage really doesn't mean that much. -- Mitch Williams
A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay. -- Dan Savage
A high percentage of vegan men look like lesbians. -- Dov Davidoff
Don't just give me an advance. I want a percentage. -- Pitbull
Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages. -- Byron Nelson
There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time. -- Jonathan Lethem
According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable. -- Bobby Bragan
100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased. -- C. S. Lewis
Thinking about working out burns 0 calories, 0 percentage of fat and accomplishes 0 goals! -- Gwen Ro
I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home. -- James MacArthur
I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985 -- Serj Tankian
It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology. -- Donald T. Regan
By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty. -- Peter Diamandis
Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique -- Jeff Van Gundy
A large percentage of the staff plays both online and here at the Casinos. -- Tim Page
If I had to put a percentage on it - I'd say not likely. -- Forrest Gregg
Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least. -- Robert Kiyosaki
People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people. -- Sydney Schanberg
You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly. -- Iain Glen
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter. -- Tony Gilroy
The highest percentage of England's top jobs are filled by graduates from about two different universities. -- Keira Knightley
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There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed. -- Tony Robbins
There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads. -- Bradley A. Smith
It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations. -- David Gilmour
I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles. -- Zoe Saldana
If on-base percentage is so important, then why don't they put it up on the scoreboard? -- Jeff Francoeur
I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush. -- Robin Ince
Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price. -- Tom Lehrer
Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body. -- Xaviera Hollander
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. -- Eric Alterman
A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in my own work, could be attributed to testimonies. -- Raul Hilberg
Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else? -- Sheldon Adelson
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history. -- Ed Gillespie
A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it. -- Kelley Armstrong
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out. -- Lance Armstrong
The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys. -- Simone Elkeles
If Mitt Romney had got the percentage Ronald Reagan did of Hispanics, he would have defeated Barack Obama. -- Mark Shields
Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination. -- Marvin Olasky
There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives. -- Jeb Bush
The fact is the enemy right now is within the Muslim community. A small percentage but it`s there. -- Donald Trump
We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct. -- Marion Cotillard
The GOP can't even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote. -- Luis Fortuno
I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others -- Jim Bakker
In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today. -- Paul Zane Pilzer
I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that. -- Bryan Shelton
A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood. -- Greg Lynn
I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing. -- Art Linkletter
People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage. -- Steven Zaillian
People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles " it's a small percentage. -- Steven Zaillian
Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent. -- Lee Majors
I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters. -- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature. -- Julio Cortazar
In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country. -- Bernie Sanders
Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population. -- Dave Matthews
If someone analyzed your words today, what percentage would be tender, encouraging, uplifting, faith-building, and joyful? Would it match Christ's proportions? -- David Jeremiah
Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds. -- Scott Ian
Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. -- Edgar Fiedler
No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt. -- Barnaby Keeney
Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business. -- Charlie Munger
Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea. -- Sylvia Ashton-Warner
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. -- Abraham Lincoln
Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential. -- John Wooden
That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers. -- Rollie Fingers
Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East. -- Bill Gates
The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons. -- Leonard L. Berry
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There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job. -- Dan Harmon
The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life -- Dennis Prager
The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America. -- Spencer Abraham
If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life. -- Harold Sherman
Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch. -- Miles Franklin
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year. -- Jonathan Kozol
Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States. -- Chris Chocola
There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that! -- Jessica Szohr
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Dave Barry
The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention. -- Ruth Reichl
In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s. -- Lois Capps
True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with their hearts, not heads. -- Kevin Allen
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Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills. -- Pele
Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover. -- Christina Baker Kline
Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea? -- Ben Marcus
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. -- Cinco Paul
I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble. -- Vance Havner
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. -- Warren Buffett
The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench. -- William S. Knudsen
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable. -- Bobby Bragan

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