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“We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.”

“You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they dont have the physical skills but because they dont have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.”

People Want Can Do Moral Fire Skills Percent Practise Trainees

Author:Atul Gawande

“So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.”

Skills Percent Twenties Luck Eighty

Author:Chris LeDoux

“I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.”

“Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time or effort-and outperforms about 80 percent of all investors.”

Littles Effort Skills Percent Strategy Investment Investing Investors Passive Walter Mitty

Book:The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

Source: The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

“What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social skills, but there are those who end up in comedy because they don't know how to socialize. I don't want to deal with that group.”

Knows Want Ends Found Social Deals Careers Know How Comedy Nice Groups Skills Percent Social Skills

Author:Lewis Black

“Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.”

People Thinking Needs Giving Country Skills Six Percent Doctors Green Cards Canada Ems Educate Visa Green Card

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.”

Animal Skills Percent Miracle Cooking Starting Strings Vegetables Wraps Aprons

Book:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name”

Reason Pain Remember Names Pleasure Five Ten Skills Percent Hundred Twenties Luck Fifty Fifteen Will Power

Author:Mike Shinoda

“Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general the higher a position in an organization, the more EI mattered: for individuals in leadership positions, 85 percent of their competencies were in the EI domain.”

Kind Jobs Three Found Individual Leadership Ability Position Emotional Higher Skills Percent Organization Intelligence All Kinds Compare Domain Cognitive Competencies Technical Skills

Author:Daniel Goleman