"Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns."

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Source : Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less”, p.153, Crown Business

Richard Koch

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“We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.”
“This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.”
“A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.”
“Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.”
“Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.”

Source : Interview with Liane Balaban, logger.believermag.com. February 13, 2013.
“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.”
“I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.”
“Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.”

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