If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
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The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.
If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
No matter what you go through, if it's the truth, 9 times out of 10, somebody else has been through the same thing or is currently going through the same thing.
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