Percentages quotes
36 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that."
"A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it's only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good."
"In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value."
"Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least."
"100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased."
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"Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business."
"On-base percentage really doesn't mean that much."