“Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.” BigsCompanyMillionsInternetCapablePercentAverageSizeTraditionalCompareEmployeeRevenueOffline Author:Yuri Milner
“A decade ago, I really did believe that the average investor could do it himself. I was wrong. I've come to the sad conclusion that only a tiny minority, at most one percent, are capable of pulling it off. Heck, if Helen Young Hayes, Robert Sanborn, Julian Robertson, and the nation's largest pension funds can't get it right, what chance does John Q. Investor have?” IfsBelieveDoeYoungNationsChanceCapablePercentInvestingAverageDecadesTinyConclusionMinoritiesFundInvestorsPullingPensionHelen Author:William J. Bernstein
“If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.” IfsFailingCapablePercentBlockKeep GoingSeventies Author:Mike Lowell
“I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.” MindBelieveHumansEnoughCapableSmartPercentErrorsDon't BelieveHuman Mind Author:Ken Wilber
“All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsStillsSchoolCultureLeftDemocracyCitizensCapablePercentDollarsDemocraticComing OutSiblingDemocratic SocietyInformed Citizens Author:Robert Bly