Quotes About Progress

With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.

When I first joined Manchester City, I was not 100 per cent fit.

I gave 100 per cent, 100 per cent of the time I played for Liverpool. Five years, I did everything I could possibly do. I love this club, but it is time for a new adventure.

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write, I begin to perceive an ending. I begin to see a destination, although sometimes that changes. And then, of course, there's the whole middle section looming.

You always feel the ground rumbling beneath your feet, and if you don't, you're an idiot. Mostly because it is rumbling beneath your feet, and there is always someone who is coming up behind you who is as good, younger, and, at least as you perceive it, has more energy and more nimbleness than you.

What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being's way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth.

Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.

Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view.

How you are perceived is over a continuum of time. So I just keep on working. I've kind of always seen that as the antidote. Just keep on working.

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.

Being bootstrapped is great. You own 100 percent of it. But the downside is that you aren't able to move as fast as you want.

I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five medicines, you could do away with 90 percent of cancer. That's sort of my objective. I think we're going to do it.

In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today.

Long ago when I went to college, campuses were about 70 percent male, and until 1970, it was still nearly 60 percent.

You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another.

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.

All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

My 3-point percentage is low, but I think I just need to work on that.

When the game is played by such a high percentage of black and ethnic minority players and we're looking at the percentage of managers and coaches, at the top level it is minimal.

A high percentage of each of my books has been written in Des Moines.