Quotes
- "The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent
of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people."
- The 80/20 Principle can transform your life your organization, out society: not by applying a panacea,
but be working with rather than against the grain of the universe.
- Every person I have known who has taken The 80/20 Principle,
seriously has emerged with useful, in some cases life-changing insights."
- "Yet considering that The 80/20 Principle has affected the lives of hundreds of millions of people, even though they may
be unaware of it, it remains strangely uncelebrated. It is I time to put this right."
- Business strategy should not be a grand and sweeping overview. It should be more like an under view,
a peek beneath the covers to look in great detail at what is going on.
- We tend to think of innovation as difficult, but with
the creative use of The 80/20 Principle innovation can be both easy and fun!"
- Marketing, and the whole firm, should devote extraordinary endeavour towards delighting, keeping for ever
and expanding the sales to the 20 per cent of customers who provide 80 per cent.
- Expect the unexpected. Expect 20 per cent to lead to
80 per cent and 80 per cent to result in 20 per cent.
- 80/20 Thinking is inherently optimistic because, paradoxically,
it reveals a state of affairs that is seriously below what it should be.
- Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into
a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.
- The 80/20 Principe treats time as a friend, not an enemy. Time gone is not time lost. Time will always come round again That is
why there are seven days in a week, twelve months in a year, why the seasons come round again.
- There are10 golden rules for successful careers in an increasingly 80/20 world. The winners in any field have, almost by definition, found ways to make 20- per cent of effort yield 80 per cent of the results.
- There is a free lunch after all, and the taste is out of this world.
- The 80/20 Principle
- The key is to work out the few things that are really important,
and the few methods that will give us what we really want.
- Chuck your to do list, make a not to do list.
- The modern delusion is “more with more” – that to get more out of life, and succeed in what we want, we have to work harder, devote more time ot our professional life, and make all kinds
of sacrifices and trade-offs. Koch says NO. He shows how, in all walks of life, less is more.
- Living the 80/20 Way