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The 80/20 Principle ‘Congratulations! The 80/20 Principle is terrific. ’ Al Ries , bestselling author of Focus and Positioning

‘Koch is a passionate 80/20er. Read this and you will be too’. Andrew Campbell, Ashridge Strategic Management Centre

‘Both astute and entertaining, this is an intriguing book to help people concentrate on not wasting their lives’. Professor Theodore Zeldin, St Anthony’s College, Oxford

‘Through multiple examples, and a punchy down-to-earth commentary, Koch offers the first really useful advice we’ve seen in a management book for years. ’

Business Age

The 80/20

Principle

The Secret of Achieving More with Less

Richard Koch

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For a very long time, the Pareto law [the 80/20 Principle] has lumbered the economic scene like an erratic block on the landscape: an empirical law which nobody can explain.

Josef Steindl