statistics quotes

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians‘ warning that correlation is not causation.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I don’t know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.