30 Quotes About Ratios

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.