37 Quotes by Vilfredo Pareto

80% of results come from 20% of effort/time

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

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

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the disadvantage of the well-off, and that they would end up with an arrangement in which taxes are voted by those who do not pay them.

Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory.

Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.

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.

Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.