Cents Quotes - Page 29

• A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

  Gene Fowler

  Money, Men, Dollars

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• We had a level of tariffs of about five per cent. Now a lot of those will go, most of them will go over time, some of them immediately. Now that means that electronic goods and other things, white goods, coming into Australia, will be cheaper for our community. It also means in many cases that the inputs used by our high-end manufacturers to make a final product are also coming in cheaper than they otherwise would - so it makes those manufacturers more competitive.

  Andrew Robb

  Mean, White, Australia

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

  Ridley Scott

  Believe, People, Brain

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test.

  Gary Player

  Wind, Long, Examination

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• That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Statistics, Failing, Incredibles

  Andrew Carnegie (2007). “The Empire of Business”, p.209, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Spanish PM rang me to say: 'I have the support of only 4 per cent of the people.' I said, 'Crikey, that's even less than think Elvis Presley is still alive.'

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Pms, People

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• If the CEO's behavior is 95 per cent healthy while the rest of the organization is only 50 per cent sound, it is more effective to focus on that crucial and leveraged 5 per cent that makes up the reminder of the CEO's behavior.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Organization, Focus, Healthy

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• Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years.

  Paul Ormerod

  Years, Growth, Size

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring.

  Dave Eggers

  Simple, Thinking, Government

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 1, 2010.

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• You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.

  Dakota Fanning

  Advice, Hundred, Committed

  "Push - Dakota Fanning interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

  Adam Ant

  Play, Tricks, Sample

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• 43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

  Steven Wright

  Statistics, Made, Spots

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• Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain't got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin' broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road.

  Roger Miller

  Travel, Kings, Regret

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• You come out of a store and they give you seventy-five cents change or something, rather than drop it I would always place it in the community. Sometimes I'd flip it into the hat of a busker or give it to a homeless person. But what I most enjoyed was putting it on a windowsill or on a bench seat or somewhere where I knew that the community would get it.

  Jason Mraz

  Giving, Community, Benches

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

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• I find this accusation so horrendous, so monstrous, that I have decided to confront it head-on by talking to the press. I am frustrated and angry. I believe that I am absolutely, 100 per cent innocent. I assure you: I have never taken drugs.

  Martina Hingis

  Believe, Taken, Talking

  "Hingis tests positive for cocaine", www.cnn.com. November 2, 2007.

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• Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

  Gene Hackman

  Successful, Luck, Endurance

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• College is great. It's the only time in life where you can write a check for 39 cents... and bounce it.

  Henry Cho

  Writing, College, Checks

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• People actually occupy around 3 per cent of the earth's land surface. If 1,200 square feet was given to every person in the world, they would still all fit into an area the size of Texas - whether the Texans would object is an altogether different issue!

  Michael Coren

  Squares, Texas, Land

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• You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you're like, "Oh man, I'm gonna pick a team to be on! I'm gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page" or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it's just a real drag that people live their lives that way.

  Bradford Cox

  Team, Real, Fighting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If your company matches your 401(k) contribution, then no matter what, contribute to your 401(k) first. You put in a dollar, they put in 50 cents. It's an automatic 50 percent return on your money. You can't pass that up. I'd rather have the 50 percent than pay 32 percent interest on a credit card.

  Suze Orman

  Cards, Credit, Pay

  "Debt vs. debt: Which loans do I pay off first?". "Today" Interview, www.today.com. May 6, 2009.

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• I think it's incredibly basic: we have to now deliver all of the huge advantages of trading with the 92 per cent of people in the world who aren't in the EU, so for me that was the final deciding factor.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Thinking, People, Finals

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The impact of climate change is relatively small. The average impact on welfare is equivalent to losing a few per cent of income. That is, the impact of a century worth of climate change is comparable to the impact of one or two years of economic growth.

  Richard Tol

  Impact, Average, Years

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• Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

  Henry John Heinz

  Character, Men, Ability

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• And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of Fort McMurray. Pump and steam and dig and drill and get that oil out of the sand in any and every way we can. Every drop of oil from Alberta is one less drop from some fascist theocracy, or some brutal warlord; one less cent into the treasuries of Russia's secret police and al-Qaeda's murderers.

  Ezra Levant

  Oil, Russia, Goal

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