“Every morning I'd have coffee with my wife and we would discuss ideas. Sixty percent of what I did for the stores was concepts. The other forty percent was correcting and cleaning up other concepts in house, or doing final art on my concepts. Most of my concepts were so finished they could turn them over to somebody else.” ArtIdeasTurnsHouseMorningWifePercentConceptsFinalsMy WifeFinishedStoresCoffeeFortySixtyEvery MorningCleaningCorrectingCleaning Up Author:Mike Royer
“There are three important principles to Graham's approach. [The first is to look at stocks as fractional shares of a business, which] gives you an entirely different view than most people who are in the market. [The second principle is the margin-of-safety concept, which] gives you the competitive advantage. [The third is having a true investor's attitude toward the stock market, which] if you have that attitude, you start out ahead of 99 percent of all the people who are operating in the stock market - it's an enormous advantage.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsLooksImportantDifferentThreeViewsAttitudePrinciplesShareApproachPercentConceptsAdvantageThirdsSafetyEnormousInvestorsMarginsCompetitive AdvantageDifferent Views Author:Warren Buffett
“The brain processes meaning before detail. Providing the gist, the core concept, first was like giving a thirsty person a tall glass of water. And the brain likes hierarchy. Starting with general concepts naturally leads to explaining information in a hierarchical fashion. You have to do the general idea first. And then you will see that 40 percent improvement in understanding.” GivingFirstsPersonsIdeasProcessUnderstandingWaterBrainFashionInformationPercentConceptsStartingGlassesDetailsImprovementCoreLikesTallProvidingHierarchyExplainingThirstyGist Author:John Medina
“We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.” WayNeedsGivingGovernmentRunningUsedCitiesNew YorkTaxesPercentConceptsResponsibleRaisesFinancialSolveNew York CityApplicationSanityRevenueSales Tax Author:Eliot Spitzer
“I think in some ways it would make more sense to have as a poverty level a relative concept and say, the level of poverty is that level of income or that level of consumption below which 10 percent of the people now are.” PeopleThinkingWayLevelsPovertyPercentConceptsIncomeRelativeConsumption Author:Milton Friedman
“I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.” ModernProvePercentConceptsMedicineWesternPhysicsWhy NotEnergeticModern PhysicsWestern Medicine Author:Deborah King
“The concept of this so-called "TerraPower reactor" is that you, in the same reactor, you both burn and breed. So, instead of making plutonium and then extracting it, we take uranium - the 99.3 percent that you normally don't do anything with - we convert that, and we burn it.” PercentConceptsUraniumPlutonium Author:Bill Gates
“My approach is to 100 percent get the concept and the visual right. Get the client to love the space. Once they love the space, everything's possible.” SpaceApproachPercentConceptsVisualsClients Author:James Pearse Connelly
“A good school is a relative concept, and the better schools are located in more expensive neighborhoods. But when everyone bids more for a house in a better school district, they succeed only in bidding up the prices of those houses. As before, 50 percent of all children will attend schools in the bottom half of the school quality distribution. As in the familiar stadium metaphor, all stand, hoping to get a better view, only to discover that no one sees better than if all had remained seated.” IfsChildrenSchoolHouseViewsHalfQualitySucceedPercentConceptsBottomMetaphorFamiliarExpensiveNeighborhoodRelativeDistributionStadiumsBiddingGood SchoolSchool Districts Author:Robert H. Frank