If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
We sell to businesses who sell other stuff, so we're just going to concentrate on doing that.
If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.
Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
You really have to understand this isn't a business where you sit in the back room and do calculations - you have to be very concerned about employees and customers, because that's really what's going to bring you success.
Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.
My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.
We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.
When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.