Top 40 One Percent Quotes

Words matter. These are the best One Percent Quotes from famous people such as Elizabeth Emken, Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar, Ryan North, Emily Ratajkowski, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Ironically, if you look at Dianne Feinstein's profile a

Ironically, if you look at Dianne Feinstein’s profile and you look at my profile, I’m the 99 percent. Dianne Feinstein’s the one percent. She appeals to one percent.
Elizabeth Emken
Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues.
Bernie Sanders
The one percent must pay their fair share.
Ilhan Omar
For me personally, I get to be a cartoonist, because my comic would never survive in print. Maybe one in 100 people would like it, but online, I can gather that one percent all in one place.
Ryan North
I’m really sick of the ‘one percent’ that is taking all the money from this country, draining the middle class, making it nonexistent.
Emily Ratajkowski
Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the last recession, middle-class families have not. About 95 percent of income gains between 2009 and 2012 went to the top one percent.
James P. Hoffa
I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don’t think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.
Henry Rollins
Only one percent of artists are really profitable and successful. Beyonce is one‑tenth of one percent. When we talk about what she can do, ninety-nine percent of artists can’t do that.
Mathew Knowles
We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in there, they’re voting for it. We might say it’s one percent of all spending but the impact of that spending is far greater.
Sean Duffy
The UFC makes about 99 percent of the money, and the rest goes to the fighters. That one percent ain’t nothing compared to what they make on merchandising, on pay-per-view, and everything else they make around the world.
Tito Ortiz
Eliminating some 3600 post offices – mostly rural – will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.
Winona LaDuke
We should get young people to be more concerned about our debt and point out to them that promising them more all the time is a completely unsustainable way of being and that it’s a lie to say that the top one percent are going to pay for it.
Dan Crenshaw
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.
Mitch Daniels
Although women do two-thirds of the world’s labor, they own less than one percent of the world’s assets.
Isabel Allende
I’m very lucky because less than one percent of boxers get out of the game financially secure.
Tony Bellew
I feel we could be doing more to connect the increasing revenues in football to some kind of deeper purpose. This is what struck me about Common Goal. Through the one percent pledge, we are building a bridge between football and social impact around the world.
Mats Hummels
We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
Barry Schuler
Few Americans other than the One Percent have a stake in the American economic and political system.
Paul Craig Roberts
When you write an album and you’re writing about relationships, the stuff that I’ve been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it’s that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.
Kris Allen
It’s so easy to steal from the bottom 99 percent, but try stealing from the top one percent, and they put you under the jail.
Richard Ojeda
If you could make something one percent smarter than a human, your artificial attorney or accountant would be better than all the attorneys or accountants out there. You would be the richest person in the world. People are chasing that.
Anthony Levandowski
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
Going to that level, a lot of guys get to the NFL, and they don’t make a long career out of it. The NFL is very hard. One percent of college athletes make it to the NFL.
Baron Corbin
One percent of all comics ever reach the level of a Chris Rock or a Jerry Seinfeld. When audiences come to the underground rooms, they have a chance to watch the process that happens along the way – and see the comedians grow.
Baron Vaughn
Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don’t necessarily reflect the world’s brightest and most capable thought leaders but, rather, the people who’ve been afforded the most opportunities to succeed.
Sebastian Thrun
The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That’s a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it’s all bleakly barren.
Seth Shostak
Women do two thirds of the world’s work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world’s income and own less than one percent of the world’s property. They are among the poorest of the world’s poor.
Barber Conable
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison
No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
Fidel Castro
This country is going to implode, or put another way, it’s going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can’t have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
Tavis Smiley
Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting th

Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.
Chuck Zito
First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it’s a false statistic. There’s nobody that is wealthy saying, let’s go get the people that aren’t. First of all, there’s no versus. He’s creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.
Jon Lovitz
You had to have a unanimous jury verdict, and one percent of contributory negligence barred all recovery. It was so satisfying to realize I could do it. And I’ll tell you what motivated me: competitiveness. I was betting on me. That’s what a contingent-fee lawyer does.
Joe Jamail
We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas A. Edison
I realize that I’m in the top one percent of the world. I’ve traveled a lot. I’ve seen immense poverty in the world, and I can’t live with everything I’ve had and be comfortable with everything I have unless I do something for the rest of the world.
Andie MacDowell
With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.
Abraham Maslow
I had a totally different upbringing, totally different background, raised in Germany, small town, now I am in London taking care of 180 kids who think they are the one percent who can make it in professional football.
Per Mertesacker
And when I was saying I want to become number one of the world and I was 7, 8 years old, most of the people were laughing to me. Because you know, it seemed like I have one percent chances to do that. And I’ve done it.
Novak Djokovic
In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible… When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I’ve done it.
Novak Djokovic