“Money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
“But the investors who really follow the market, the ones who call up all the time, ninety percent of them really don't care whether they make money or not.”
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 5, You Mean That's What Money Really Is?, p. 53
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“Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.”
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“Ninety Percent of those who fail are not actually defeated they simply quit.”
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“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
Spoken statement (c. 1903); published in Harper's Monthly (September 1932).
Variants:
None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Statement in a press conference (1929), as quoted in Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh (1987) by James D. Newton, p. 24.
Variant forms without early citation: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
"Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
1900s
Variant: Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety nine perspiration.
