Pareto's Law Quotes & Sayings

Pareto's Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs
result from 20% of the inputs. — Timothy Ferriss

Empirical laws [ ... ] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true. — Vilfredo Pareto

Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [ ... ] "Natural law" is simply that law of which the person using the phrase approves[ ... ] — Vilfredo Pareto

Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and even the study of history would largely be useless. In effect, if the future actions of men having nothing in common with their past actions, our knowledge of them, although possibly satisfying our curiosity by way of an interesting story, would be entirely useless to us as a guide in life. — Vilfredo Pareto