You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.
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Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
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Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
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TED TURNER If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
ALFRED P. SLOAN If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
ALFRED SLOAN
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
If you treat people right they will treat you right -- ninety percent of the time.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Of course, we still have another weekend left. But, even if we have a big-time weekend, February wil...
JEFF HARPER
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent ...
LEROY HOOD Ninety percent of the time, rape is done by someone you know. Not a creepy man in the alley.
ANDREA COOPER
Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three...
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SCOT MCCLOUGHAN
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usuall...
CORY LIDLE Don't forget 97 percent of the rally is still to go.
CARLOS SAINZ
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the tim...
PETER DRUCKER
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the tim...
PETER F. DRUCKER Eighty percent of the time I'm OK. Twenty percent of the time, it's overwhelming.
LARRY TURNER More than 50 percent of the time, stars have their stylists come in and shop.
DORIS RAYMOND
Along with the 97 percent of women who can see, I have never been a fan of redheaded men.
CHELSEA HANDLER People can find someone to do it cheaper, but not if they want it done right. We have a 97 percent c...
JOSH FOWLER
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
ALAN KAY Ninety-nine percent of the time, if you're straight with the press, they'll be straight with...
THOMAS P. O'NEILL To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two perce...
JUDITH CRIST Those impurities do muck up your centrifuges. It's not a problem if you want 3.5 percent enriched ur...
FRANK BARNABY Polling indicates that 90 percent of the electorate opposes eminent domain for economic development....
GENE KREBS 48 percent intentionally decreased their work effort, • 47 percent intentionally decreased the tim...
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GIL VEJAR
Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's ...
RAND PAUL Feel your shins against the tongues of your boots, 120 percent of the time. If you don't have enough...
LISA DENSMORE The average means 50 percent of the time, we're over that, and 50 percent of the time, we're under t...
JIM ROBERTSON
I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the ...
LARRY BIRD We are well prepared for what we normally see 98 percent of the time, that minor to moderate inciden...
AUGIE GHIO
I would say I'm 97 percent back now,
MELISSA ETHERIDGE
Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped t...
LAUREN OLIVER
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
COLIN POWELL If you owe money, and you know you owe money, you have to pay 90 percent of your tax.
JO ELLEN HUGHES Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to ...
DAVEED DIGGS If you have a 19 percent credit card and you pay it off you make 19 percent on your money. If you ha...
JANE BRYANT QUINN
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MOIRA YOUNG
You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people a...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG More than 90 percent of the hospital bills I've audited have gross overcharges.
NORA JOHNSON So far this fiscal year, we have experienced sales tax increases over the same time last year of 5.3...
JIM WEHMEIER It's definitely not an exact science. We're probably right 85, 90 percent of the time. It's about as...
MATT GIFFORD It's easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of th...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN For the property management end of it, we have the best market that we've had in a long time vacanci...
KATHY COTTA
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HENRY KISSINGER That's about 20 percent of the time.
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HARUKI MURAKAMI After two or three cases, we will switch into response. We would have an increasing number of sick p...
DR. JUDITH HARTNER The secret, which nobody realized at the time, was that with this sand, which was 100 percent inorga...
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WALTER O'BRIEN
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GRAY DAVIS
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