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I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.
—Elon Musk
20 % of the Customers Drink 80 % of the Beer
That version of the the 80/20 Rule is attributed to an English pub keeper. It’s an informal summary of the Pareto distribution, a power-law probability phenomenon that describes a great deal of human behavior. The Pareto distribution suggests it is usually the case in an organization with a statistically large population that a group about the size of the square root of the total population produces half of the organization’s beneficial work.
This tells us why Elon Musk is probably right and Robert Reich is probably wrong.
If Twitter had 7500 employees when Musk took over, something on the order of 87 were probably carrying half the real productive load. Firing only half the staff wouldn’t get rid of enough deadwood.
I’m looking forward to seeing how Twitter will be reshaped.
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
—Oswald Chambers
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The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
—Ruth Gordon
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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
—Thomas More
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
—Theodore Roosevelt
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Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
—Confucius
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
—Alexis de Tocqueville
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It’s strictly business.
—Michael Corleone
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Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
—Coco Chanel
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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
—Theophrastus
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If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
—Red Adair
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Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
—Peter Drucker
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
—Henry Kissinger
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
—Harriet Tubman
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You can’t make a souffle rise twice.
—Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
—Sun Tzu
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
—Abraham Lincoln
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Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
—Polybius
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Infantry wins battles, but logistics wins wars.
—John Pershing
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Before beginning, plan carefully.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Wind will not cease even if trees want to rest.
—Mao Zedong
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Ignoranti quem portum petat nullus suus ventus est. If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
—Seneca the Younger