Top 100 80 20 Quotes
#1. Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.
Ian Darke
#2. The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.
Richard Pascale
#3. There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our time ... The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now.
Richard Koch
#4. The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.
Richard Koch
#5. 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.
Richard Koch
#6. Applying the 80:20 rule, I would say that 80 per cent of our youth don't even care about politics or government. What they care about are their lives - their jobs, their boyfriends or girlfriends and, well, that's about it.
Chetan Bhagat
#7. 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!
Richard Koch
#8. Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.
Richard Koch
#9. The 80/20 rule asserts that approximately 80 percent of the effects generated by any large system are caused by 20 percent of the variables in that system.
William Lidwell
#10. I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent.
Miranda Kerr
#11. In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations.
Richard Koch
#12. The important thing is the 80/20 rule: 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This means that if you're doing ten tasks, two are going to be vastly more important than others.
Brian Tracy
#13. The 80/20 analysis is a statistical analysis that you can conduct to improve your sales. Research has shown that, for any given event, 80% of the outcome will be due to 20% of the cause.
Grant Kennedy
#14. I eat organic and cook my food whenever possible, and I live by the 80/20 rule. Eighty percent of the time I'm Stash all the way, 20 percent I enjoy the things I want.
Laura Prepon
#15. Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this is a time to ask yourself when good enough is enough and then stop.
Mira Kirshenbaum
#16. Whoever said "Success is 80% Joy and 20% Hardwork" must have chased the latter 20% not ignoring the first 80%. Follow the Joy route and the power is already lost.
Priyavrat Thareja
#17. If you give only 80 percent leadership, your dog will give you 80 percent following. And the other 20 percent of the time he will run the show. If you give your dog any opportunity for him to lead you, he will take it.
Cesar Millan
#18. Pareto's Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs
result from 20% of the inputs.
Timothy Ferriss
#19. Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.
Grantland Rice
#20. A level 4 leader's greatest asset is his ability to engage, empower, and equip his people; this is what creates the momentum for a significant change in the organization. He invests 80% in his people and 20% in the process.
Farshad Asl
#21. Never tell your problems to any1 ... 20% donot care and 80% are glad to have them ...
Lou Holtz
#22. Money is 80% behavior, 20% head knowledge. It's what you do, not what you know.
Dave Ramsey
#23. Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
Miles Davis
#24. Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.
Ben Hogan
#25. Even if everything between us was 80 percent in my own mind, I said, 20 percent had to come from you. You disagreed; insisted everything that passed between us was my own fabrication.
Chris Kraus
#26. 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.
Richard Koch
#27. Christianity has roughly 20 percent of its followers in Africa, 20 percent in Asia, 20 percent in Europe, 20 percent in North America, and 20 percent in South America. Every other major religion has at least 80 percent of its followers concentrated on one continent.
J.D. Greear
#28. That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.
Eric Fellner
#29. ask what your 20-year-old self would think of you today, we invite you to think about what your 70, 80 or 100-year-old self would think of you now.
Lynda Gratton
#30. Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium.
Victor Sperandeo
#31. If you're troubled by the fact that 80/10 doesn't add up to 100, you've discovered the second confusing thing about the Rule. The 80 and the 20 are percentages of different things, and thus don't need to equal 100.
Chris Anderson
#32. A Model S can recharge 150 miles of range in 20 minutes at one of Tesla's charging stations with DC power pumping straight into the batteries. By comparison, a Nissan Leaf that maxes out at 80 miles of range can take 8 hours to recharge.
Ashlee Vance
#33. 80% of the output comes from 20% of the input.
Brian Cagneey
#34. Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset
Susan Rice
#35. I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?
Douglas Coupland
#36. On a recent survey, 80 percent of golfers admitted cheating. The other 20 percent lied.
Bruce Lansky
#37. 80% of my waking hours go in promoting my book. In the remaining 20%, I am promoting my book.
Bilol Bose
#38. Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
Aaron Patzer
#39. Winning at money is 80 percent behavior and 20 percent head knowledge. What to do isn't the problem; doing it is. Most of us know what to do, but we just don't do it. If I can control the guy in the mirror, I can be skinny and rich.
Dave Ramsey
#40. Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself. As speaker-humorist Ed Foreman says, "You should never share your problems with others because 80 percent of people don't care about them anyway, and the other 20 percent are kind of glad that you've got them in the first place.
Brian Tracy
#41. The reason why a man cannot stop staring at a woman ass is only because God has spent 80 percent of his time and efforts on woman ass and 20 percent on her entire body.
M.F. Moonzajer
#42. For many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes
Vilfredo Pareto
#43. Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that counts, it's the person
The Doctor
#44. I spent 80% of my time working on this, and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think the song 'Niggas in Paris' is called 'Niggas in Paris?' 'Cause niggas was in Paris!
Kanye West
#45. I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.
Rene Redzepi
#46. Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.
Anita Pallenberg
#47. Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy
Jim Rohn
#48. I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.
Brad Pitt
#49. Never tell your problems to anyone ... 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.
Lou Holtz
#51. I mostly listen to very popular songs. But I'm a huge fan of Stevie Wonder, and I love jazz - Glenn Fredly, Diah Lestari - so 80% jazz, 20% mixed with everything - disco, hip hop.
Joe Taslim
#52. Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?
Tim Ferriss
#53. For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes.
Joseph M. Juran
#54. William Glasser: "We learn 10 percent of what we read, 20 percent of what we hear, 30 percent of what we see, 50 percent of what we see and hear, 70 percent of what we discuss, 80 percent of what we experience, and 95 percent of what we teach others.
Bill Capodagli
#55. 20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That's assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.
Ryan Lilly
#56. A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
Bela Karolyi
#57. Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
Bear Grylls
#58. Pareto's Principle: you generally spend 80% of your time on 20% of the project.
Joseph M. Juran
#59. Spend your time on the 20 percent of the refactorings that provide 80 percent of the benefit.
Steve McConnell
#60. The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.
Ronald Reagan
#61. Who are the 20% of people who produce 80% of your enjoyment and propel you forward, and which 20% cause 80% of your depression, anger, and second-guessing?
Timothy Ferriss
#63. Can I be cocky for a second? If I hit a home run 80 percent of the times, and you want to talk about the 20 times I miss swinging the bat, I'm okay with that.
Jon Taffer
#64. Frankly, if you can sell something at $80 a tonne that cost you $20 a tonne, you might want to sell as much as you can.
Kerry Stokes
#65. Life is like business, 20% of what happens to you is 80% of how you react.
Daymond John
#67. In my father's generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I'm wearing.
Angelina Jolie
#68. People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
Pat Riley
#69. Research highlights a striking link between between encouraging child-raising and class. Half of working-class parents' interactions with their 12-18 month-olds were affirming, versus 80% among the affluent and 20% among those in poverty.
Betty Hart
#70. We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
Jane Goodall
#71. 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.
Richard Koch
#72. Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.
Brian Tracy
#73. An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.
Daniel Kahneman
#74. Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#75. I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.
Tom Hanks
#76. Spirituality is 80% attitude and 20% knowledge.
Stefan Emunds
#77. The Disciplined Leader is someone who focuses on the 20 percent of activities that drive 80 percent of results.
John Manning
#78. Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
Zooey Deschanel
#79. Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.
George Weah
#80. If you run a business, 80% of your business probably comes from 20% of your customers. If you are a creative person, 80% of your awards/recognition/income will come from 20% of your output.
David Hieatt
#81. Seven out of my nine films were hits. 80 per cent of the audience loves my films; the remaining 20 per may be right in their opinion, but that doesn't make me wrong. If I try too hard to woo them, I'd be cheating my core audience.
Rohit Shetty
#82. The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
#83. The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.
Dave Ramsey
#84. The idea that 20% of the features will get you 80% of the value may well be correct, but it also means that on important tasks, you're giving the customers B-grade experieence where it matters most.
Des Traynor
#85. It doesn't matter if you're 20, 40, 60, 80, or 100. Embrace your sexy-ass self and express it!
Steve Maraboli
#86. True love is 20 percent care and 80 percent understanding.
Abhijit Naskar
#87. I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
Barney Ross
#88. We learn ...
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we both hear and see
70% of what is discussed
80% of what we experience personally
95% of what we teach to someone else
William Glasser
#89. Keep your eyes on the things you are drawing 80 percent of the time and on your page just 20 percent.
Danny Gregory
#90. At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing
Baltasar Gracian
#91. Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
Hank Aaron
#92. Spend 80 percent of your time on books and 20 percent on articles and newspapers. And by books, I don't mean just any book. I mean hardcovers. A paperback is made to be read. A hardcover is made to be studied. There's a huge difference.
Tim Sanders
#93. It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.
Victoria Pendleton
#94. Over 80% of the poor are people who have small plots of land and grow their own food and they don't grow enough to sell much into the marketplace. So they will be hit hard by the worst in climate. They really get hit hard starting in the 20-year time frame and thereafter.
Bill Gates
#95. The ABC's success by Bob Proctor is one powerful book, such books are rare. Even sometimes it's hard to find a book which is based on somebody's experience... fantasy??
For god sake, one drop truth which is about from 10% up to 20% and the other from 80% up to 90% it's a lie.
Deyth Banger
#96. The theory of the IRS is rather repugnant to me because the assumption is made that I, the government, owns 100% of your income and I permit you to keep 5%, 10% or 20%. You're vulnerable, you've sold out. The government can take 80% if they want, which they did at one time.
Ron Paul
#97. For the most effective pitch, focus 80% on the problem, 20% on the solution.
Dave McClure
#98. The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.
Franz Stampfl
#99. Covering Africa is 80 percent logistics and 20 percent reporting.
Johnny Borrell
#100. Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Jim Rohn
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