Average Quotes

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.

By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.