A Quote by Terry Pratchett

If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged.

Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett
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April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

With the rather stable ratio of labor force to total population, a high rate of increase in per capita product means a high rate of increase in product per worker; and, with average hours of work declining, it means still higher growth rates in product per man-hour.

Simon Kuznets

When you brought the digital revolution in, all of a sudden, you could build a country like Singapore and take that country, which had the income per capita of Ghana in 1965, and make it something similar to the United States in one generation.

Juan Enriquez

The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

Geoffrey West

In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.

Frederick Banting

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

George Ayittey

Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries.

Marq de Villiers

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

Tony Campolo

Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.

Mary Quant

If you look at the creative economy in this country, it's per capita way bigger than any other in the world.

Melvyn Bragg

A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.

Robert Gilpin

Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

Anna Funder

Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to.

Janine Benyus

Puerto Rico's participation per capita in the armed forces is more than most states, yet they can't vote for their commander in chief.

Ricardo Rossello

Generally, we have translated greater output in the few hours of work per week over the last century. And that's a good trend of the future. But we do have to have a system that, as output of goods and services keeps increasing per capita, that it takes care of the people who are willing to work and really are not getting by very well with a family on a 40-hour week.

Warren Buffett

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.

Harry S. Dent

Every time I sprinted 100 per cent, my hamstring broke. But I knew if I didn't sprint 100 per cent, I could keep on playing, so that's what you do. I was just lucky it was discovered in America and I haven't had one problem since. I feel I can run past people again and that feels nice.

Freddie Ljungberg

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