A Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Money Nine Out People Significant Ten War

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Jonathan Safran Foer
American - Novelist
Born: February 21, 1977

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

Colin Mochrie

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

Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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

What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

Douglas William Jerrold

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

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

Robert Kiyosaki

People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.

Haruki Murakami

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Hobart Brown

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

John Lubbock

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

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

Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.

Peter Kreeft

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.

Haruki Murakami

Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.