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 out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!
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.
Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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.
I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
It's so different now coming out as a new artist today than it was when I came out almost ten years ago. Now, it's all about singles, it's really quick, it's online. I came out when people sold records and they still do today but - I don't know what the key is.
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.
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.
I'm still an artist who's searching, trying to evolve, an artist who - nine times out of ten - is dissatisfied with her work, and beats herself, and goes out there and tries again and again, and falls on her face and looks for new challenges.
The greatest MCs came out of groups; the greatest singers came out of groups. So you can't tell us we're not MCs.
Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
I've worked on over twenty TV staffs, and nine out of ten male colleagues are wonderful, inclusive, and professional. Still, there's usually one guy - the Tenth Man - who turns a fun job into a dental appointment.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.