A Quote by Colin Powell

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Colin Powell

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Colin Powell
American - Statesman
Born: April 5, 1937

I've found the 90-10 rule to be pretty true: 90 percent of what I come up with and write down is kinda 'eh,' and then somehow, someway, 10 percent of it happens to work out really great in my act.

Hasan Minhaj

In living life at 90 percent, the formula is life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it.

Diamond Dallas Page

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

Ashton Kutcher

I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.

Andrea Hirata

I reason that as long as I'm smiling 90 percent of the time, I can handle the setbacks that occur 10 percent of the time.

Payal Kadakia

This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

Robert Kiyosaki

Our mantra is that 90 percent of all television is bad, and ten percent has never been better. We make fun of that 90 percent.

Joel McHale

At Inter, we spent so much time dealing with politics, with agents. That took up 50 percent of my time, when it should have been 10 percent.

Frank de Boer

From an economic perspective, women are treated unfairly: they perform 66 percent of the world's work and produce 50 percent of the food but they only earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property.

Zainab Salbi

The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.

David Feherty

By 2015, the top 1 percent of families took home more than 20 percent of income. Wealth distribution was 10 times worse than that: the families in the top 1 percent owned as much as the families in the bottom 90 percent.

Heather Cox Richardson

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.