Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
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When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.
If something is good, more is not necessarily better. Not always.
Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
Look at all the magazines: There's always 10 ways to be better at something.
If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.
I've found the 90-10 rule to be pretty true: 90 percent of what I come up with and write down is kinda 'eh,' and then somehow, someway, 10 percent of it happens to work out really great in my act.
I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
If 10 percent is good enough for the Lord, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam.
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.
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