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.
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.
Everone has a pain thermometer that goes from zero to ten. No one will make a change until they reach ten. Nine won't do it. At nine you are still afraid. Only ten will move you, and when you're there, you'll know. No one can make that decision for you.
Nine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.
Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed the place and said he'd come again, that was enough. If one out of ten was a repeat customer, then the business would survive. To put it another way, it didn't matter if nine out of ten didn't like my bar. This realization lifted a weight off my shoulders. Still, I had to make sure that the one person who did like the place.
Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.
Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.
Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!
I really try to ask myself the question of nine. Will this matter in nine minutes, nine hours, nine days, nine weeks, nine months or nine years? If it will truly matter for all of those, pay attention to it.
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.
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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.