“Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.”

— Richard Koch

Source: The 80/20 principle: the secret of achieving more with less (1999), p. 28

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German medical historian and internist 1950

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