Re: Oh Boy , Oh Girl , Oh God

["Henry Amand" <h.amand@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Lionel Issen" <lissen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> I used to wonder abut this until I came across Pareto's 80/20 rule.
> Pareto's rule says that in any field of human activity 80% of the good
> results are made by 20% of the people. In a sales organization 80% of
> the sales are made by 20% of the people, in the stock market 80% of the
> profits are made by 20% of the people, 80% of the reference books you
> read are useless for you 20% are useful and so on. I have queried a few
> people on this and the answers were that these figures are wrong, that
> they are closer to 90/10.

Considering the stock market i even think it's 95/5

For the long run (10 years and longer) it might even be more like 99/1