one percent

Noun

Meaning

one part in a hundred equal parts

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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. Thomas Edison

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. Peter McWilliams

Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. ... And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold. Milton Friedman

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do. Stephen King

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result...Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values. Emanuel Lasker

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration. English Proverb

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