A Quote by George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

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

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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
British - Celebrity
January 11, 1859 - March 20, 1925

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.

Douglas Adams

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

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

Colin Mochrie

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

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

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

Edith Wharton

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

H. L. Mencken

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

William Feather

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.

Vicki Myron

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

C. S. Lewis

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

Terry Pratchett

Fears are a complete waste of your time. Nine times out of ten, whatever you're afraid of is not dangerous or life threatening. In fact, it's probably not even real.

Sean Stephenson

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!!