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Charles Curran

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We're growing approximately 10 per cent a year.
LARS FREDERIKSEN Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
RICHIE BENAUD As long as it does not reach the 10-11 per cent interest rate, which was recorded during the financi...
HATTA ADAM Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
RICHIE BENAUD And the proportion will increase to 10 per cent by 2020.
ZHANG GUOBAO There are so many different sets of reporting standards popping up all over the world, from NGOs to ...
LYNN PATTERSON The music world is highly commercial and only the works of the biggest artists are really well known...
XAVIER SERRA Statistics we have been seeing state that the level of fixed and mobile penetration combined, is app...
COLM DELVES will enable us to deliver 5 to 10 per cent profit after tax growth in fiscal 2006
MARK MCINNES I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all...
GAUTAM SINGHANIA Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offere...
TOMMY STEELE I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to m...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA I think, without question, that unemployment of more than 6 per cent is something to be concerned ab...
PAUL A. SAMUELSON It is not profitable. About 98 per cent farmers will be indebted. Only 2 per cent will be debt free....
DALJIT SINGH The number of youth addictions treatment beds will increase by approximately 75 per cent and allows ...
GEORGE ABBOTT Tourist arrivals could reach 13 million in 2006 at best, or approximately a 12.0 per cent increase f...
APICHART SANKARY It will be a great opportunity for us if we can capture at least 10 per cent in the launch business ...
MADHAVAN NAIR Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.
SHIV KHERA I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live ...
JOHN BURROUGHS There has also been a softening of prices of 10 to 12 per cent.
BHARAT TANDON If you're not 100 per cent familiar with the territory, this can be a very good idea. An architect o...
CHRIS BLYTH The Victorian Opposition continues to lose ground to the ALP, down 1.5 per cent to 32 per cent, and ...
GARY MORGAN why, for instance, only 2 per cent of Europeans contract the disease as opposed to 13 per cent of Af...
JARED DIAMOND Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Under the current plan, electricity prices are going to rise by $3 billion a year and an average of ...
ADAM WHITE At this time of year there are approximately 19,000 cars per day traveling from 589 to Coastal Highw...
GENE COFIELL Our tests on a range of aircraft average out at adding 10 per cent more seats.
BRIAN ROGERS The penalty for repeatedly failing to file is 10 per cent of your tax balance owing, plus two per ce...
JAMES RHODES We are looking at significant growth; say a 10 to 20 per cent increase this year off a base of 15,00...
ANDREW FRENCH I am pretty confident I will be 100 per cent fit. I don't know if it's an injury that you can go in ...
JACQUES KALLIS The expansion process through new acquisition which we had undertaken will continue as we had achiev...
HARSH MARIWALA Sixty per cent of the population has to show up to vote; 60 per cent have to approve the change. Als...
ROBERT GHIZ Adjusted for the unexpectedly high loss in source market France, earnings by tourism rose 17 per cen...
MICHAEL FRENZEL Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
THOMAS A. EDISON Racing is 99 per cent boredom and 1 per cent terror.
GEOFF BRABHAM This concern suggests it will take a lot of strength to get the Fed to tighten beyond 5 per cent.
DARREN GIBBS The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will a...
GAUTAM ADANI About 10 per cent of this comet is made of organic materials. We don't know exactly what they all ar...
DON BROWNLEE Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
THOMAS A. EDISON Only about one per cent of the appeals was not resolved in the way we would have wanted. But under n...
MAUREEN WEBBER Sixty per cent seems like a high threshold. But if it requires sixty per cent provincially, I'm not ...
LEONARD RUSSELL I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If I was to say where we were, I'd say we were at about 80-85 per cent where we can be.
IAIN DOWIE The recovery in consumer spending is in its infancy. Retail growth in real terms has been the weakes...
CRAIG JAMES We have been growing at 26 per cent and fetched around US$ 1.5 billion during July-November period o...
FAZLUL HAQUE We would want to be sure that Sonny Bill is 110 per cent fit if New Zealand pick him for the Anzac T...
MALCOLM NOAD We forecast an increase of approximately 15 per cent in operating profit after tax for the half year...
CHARLES CURRAN Capital Properties' independent directors sent a letter to shareholders last week stating that they ...
STEPHEN COSTLEY The market expects 10 per cent earnings growth for this year in Europe and I don't think it's excess...
GUILLAUME DUCHESNE What we need is 10 per cent cash incentive for finished leather manufacturers and duty free import o...
TIPU SULTAN We hope overseas contribution will grow to 60 per cent in five years.
JUSTIN TAN We are concerned about the Australian market this financial year and the U.S. market in the next fin...
ATUL LELE For the full year, we expect to achieve a good increase in both operating profit before exceptional ...
MARTIN BROUGHTON close to 100 per cent.
MIKE WEIR My take is that the Fed will continue to raise overnight rates until it feels it has moved from a st...
SHERRY COOPER The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employe...
KATE REARDON So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER We have 300 New Brunswick schools participating as compared to 75 last year, and we have 100 per cen...
HEATHER BRANDER About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five pe...
JOHN WARNER Whatever the outcome on Sunday you can rest assured that while Brett may not have gone into the even...
BOB LEE We see the market as about 50 per cent IP, moving steadily to more than 100 per cent over the next f...
DONALD PETERSON You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
EDEN HAZARD In the Australian context there have been hybrid securities for corporations for 10 years. In Europe...
PAUL DONNELLY The Australian dollar will be under a little more pressure. I can't see a changed policy.
ALEX SINTON Most philanthropists want to be effective altruists. But the problem isn't intention: it's m...
LEILA JANAH The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only...
EREZ LIEBERMAN AIDEN See food as medicine eighty per cent of the time. The other twenty per cent of the time you can indu...
JASON COOK We will be launching a document probably tomorrow with the French regulators to launch the takeover ...
STEPHEN ALLEN This is a company that makes 25 per cent gross profit when the norm is 12 per cent. I am sure they c...
COUN TILSLEY If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think ab...
WARREN BUFFETT Overall the share of resources going to the social and economic sectors rises from 60.6 per cent to ...
DR KAMAU THUGGE For such a wealthy country, and one where there is such innovation, the tertiary enrolment rate in 2...
JENNIFER BLANKE Cabrini spends approximately $10 million annually on institutional financial aid, which represents o...
JEAN JACOBSON Whereas today the cost to purchase commercial-grade carbon fiber is between $8 and $10 per pound, th...
BOB NORRIS 100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.
C.S. LEWIS In this century, the Australian Century, Australia will also have an opportunity to achieve extraord...
ASHER JUDAH We do approximately one wedding per week.
ANDRES ARAYA The film business has changed hugely. You seem to spend about 30 per cent of the time producing the ...
JEREMY IRONS Now I get docked 10 to 20 per cent (of my appearance fee) if I don't yell at some people and break a...
JOHN MCENROE With greater employment taking place in China through Hong Kong, the net outlook for Hong Kong has d...
SOUMEN BASU Forty-three per cent of the benefit goes to the wealthiest one per cent, those who are making $900,0...
KENT CONRAD Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
ADAM PEATY About eighty to ninety per cent of the population must be rated about as high in ego-security as the...
ABRAHAM MASLOW I'm the captain of one of these giant new planes, and 90 per cent of it takes place on board,
SEAN BEAN Delivering on our long-term commitment to enhance shareholder value, this is Devon's third consecuti...
J. LARRY NICHOLS The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy p...
BILL BUFORD With approximately 75 per cent of our rubbish generated by packaging, a few simple steps - buying lo...
SHEHERAZADE GOLDSMITH The memory capacity of mid- to high-priced PCs will diminish three to five per cent relative to prev...
JAY KIM It was pretty hard to take, to be honest. Nobody was 100 per cent sure.
MARK SCHWARZER Lenders could be unwittingly exposing themselves; they may think they are lending 85 per cent when i...
MARTIN REYNOLDS Without good horses, you are nothing. In polo, it's 70 per cent horse, 30 per cent rider. And I ...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-f...
WILL FERRELL The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers ...
HERMAN CAIN We're stopping 97 per cent of the fires.
MITCH MILLER I'm not interested in absolute moral judgments. Just think of what it means to be a good man or a ba...
NORMAN MAILER The government will have to provide budgetary provision for the purpose...we demand that the rate of...
DIPANKAR MUKHERJEE We have made substantial progress in fixing our financial reporting infrastructure, but our work is ...
MARTIN BAUMANN The government has withdraw the provision of bonus on maturity of the scheme on any accounts opened ...
ANIL BISWAS Here in Jamaica the growth is expected to be slightly below three per cent in 2006/2007.
ALEX IBRAHIM Good earning growth. Next year, their earnings will be about $1.90 (per share). That's just 10 times...
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CHARLES MINGUS The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have bee...
CHARLES BABBAGE Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, re...
CHARLES BABBAGE The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producin...
CHARLES BABBAGE Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
CHARLES BABBAGE The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or...
CHARLES BABBAGE Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscan...
CHARLES BABBAGE In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to ta...
CHARLES BABBAGE Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
CHARLES BABBAGE That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of...
CHARLES BABBAGE The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it ne...
CHARLES BABBAGE The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual forc...
CHARLES BABBAGE There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with whic...
CHARLES BABBAGE In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
CHARLES BABBAGE The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almo...
CHARLES BABBAGE The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
CHARLES BABBAGE Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the...
CHARLES BABBAGE At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes...
CHARLES BABBAGE A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine i...
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