Percentage Doesn't Matter Quotes

We’ve made health too complicated with our extensive lists of foods to avoid, complex percentages of fats-to-protein-to-carb ratios, elimination diets, calorie counting, even weighing our food—and despite all these rules, we’re not getting any better. It just doesn’t need to be this complicated. Diversity of plants. That’s it. That’s all you have to remember. Done. No more annoying food lists. If you follow this one rule, it will lead you to better health. And it will always be the truth no matter what happens: No matter what changes on this planet or in our lifestyles, this core tenet of better health will stay the same.

One mistake people make is not noticing that they’re chasing a small percentage difference that doesn’t matter. Another common mistake is mistaking linear changes in a number for importance, when that change is a small percentage. What really is the difference between being able to type 115 and 119 words per minutes?

Other fintechs followed similar trajectories, growing slowly until an economy of scale led them to grow, very suddenly, into ubiquity. Because fintechs mostly focus on smaller dollar amounts than the big banks, scale matters. A wealth manager who only deals with high-net-worth individuals may consider everyone else “lobby trash,” but as wealth consolidates among fewer and fewer people, the wealth manager’s potential client base keeps shrinking. Meanwhile, the fintechs have earned the loyalty of all the “lobby trash.” When three hundred or three thousand individuals withdraw their savings from their bank and move their money into Betterment or Acorns or Chime, the amount is an insignificant percentage of a bank’s holdings; the bank doesn’t notice or especially care.