A Quote by Ant Middleton

I'm an extreme do'er - I'm not an intellect; I'm not a bookworm. I do, do, do, and nine times out of ten, I fail, but I learn from that.

Ant Middleton

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Ant Middleton
English - Soldier
Born: September 22, 1980

The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

A. C. Benson

The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in you system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right!!

Ron Jeffries

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

Peter Lynch

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

Robert Kiyosaki

Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

Colin Mochrie

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

H. L. Mencken

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

Terry Pratchett

Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

Patricia C. Wrede

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

George Bancroft

Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.

Brian Robertson

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.