“Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this is a time to ask yourself when good enough is enough and then stop.” EnoughAsksEffortPositiveProjectsPercentAccomplishOutcomesGood EnoughWasting TimePerfectionismEnough Is Enough Book:The Gift of a Year: How to Give Yourself the Most Meaningful, Satisfying, and Pleasurable Year of Your Life Source: The Gift of a Year: How to Give Yourself the Most Meaningful, Satisfying, and Pleasurable Year of Your Life
“Until you become completely obsessed with your mission, no one will take you seriously. Until the world understands that you're not going away-that you are 100 percent committed and have complete and utter conviction and will persist in pursuing your project-you will not get the attention you need and the support you want.” WorldWantNeedsAttentionSupportProjectsPercentCommittedConvictionMissionsObsessedGoing AwayPersistSupport You Author:Grant Cardone
“Well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you - if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers - the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.” IfsThinkingWayWellsMatterWould BeOrderHalfProjectsPercentToolsBoxesCustomersProductivityImprovementCodeBurnedTestingCdsDocumentation Author:Fred Brooks
“I just love the fact that all my pals are basically looked after. You know, we have these amazing deals, these guys split 50 percent. We have ownership 50 percent, all the bonuses 50 percent, and everybody's going to be alright. So going forward into the future, every one of these Millarworld projects, as we call them, 50 percent partners on everything. So it's just a really happy environment to be working in.” KnowsFactsGuyDealsEnvironmentProjectsPercentPartnersSplitsOwnershipAlrightReally HappyBonusPals Author:Mark Millar
“According to the National Priorities Project, military expenditures are 54% of the budget. The next biggest line item is 7%. And there are a whole bunch of 7 percents. So in short, we have a military budget surrounded by a lot of footnotes. This is not serving us well.” WellsWholeNextLinesMilitaryProjectsPercentPrioritiesBunchBudgetsServingItemsExpendituresFootnotesMilitary Budget Author:Jill Stein
“I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.” WantHandsFacesNamesBehindsProductsProjectsPercentHundred Author:Kim Kardashian
“If I'm working on one thing, then that's all that there is going on, and there's no such thing as a side project to me. It's 100 percent.” IfsSidesOne ThingProjectsPercent Author:Alison Mosshart