Vilfredo Pareto quotes

Vilfredo Pareto was an Italian economist and sociologist who is best known for his concept of the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule. Born in 1848, Pareto made significant contributions to the fields of economics and sociology through his research on wealth distribution and social inequality. His work has had a lasting impact on various disciplines, with the Pareto Principle being widely used in business, management, and marketing. Learn more about Pareto's theories and their applications by exploring his life and work.

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

- Vilfredo Pareto

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

- Vilfredo Pareto

Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.

- Vilfredo Pareto

For many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.

- Vilfredo Pareto

If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape.

- Vilfredo Pareto

Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find, some theory which, a posteriori, makes their actions appear to be logical. If that theory could be demolished scientifically, the only result would be that another theory would be substituted for the first one, and for the same purpose.

- Vilfredo Pareto

The world has always belonged to the stronger and will belong to them for many years to come. Men only respect those who make themselves respected. Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.

- Vilfredo Pareto

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

- Vilfredo Pareto