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Apply This Simple Principle to Crush the Market

Why don't they teach you this at business school?

Jul 08, 2022
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The Pareto principle is one of my favorite mental models.

You may have heard of it by its other name: the “80-20 rule.”

In 1906, economist Vilfredo Pareto developed a mathematical formula to describe the distribution of wealth in Italy. Pareto observed that 20% of the population owned 80% of Italy’s wealth.

Image: https://www.ronorr.com/2015/09/01/8020-rul…

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