If 99.9% Were Good Enough

If 99.9% were good enough, then...

• Two million documents will be lost by the IRS this year
• 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next 60 minutes
• 1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecommunication services every minute
• 12 babies will be given to the wrong parents each day
• 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly this year
• 2,488,200 books will be shipped in the next 12 months with the wrong cover
• 5,517,200 cases of soft drinks produced in the next 12 months will be flatter than a bad tire
• Two plane landings daily at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago will be unsafe
• 3,065 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections
• 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled in the next hour
• 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly this year
• 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect card holders information on their magnetic strips
• 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written in the next 12 months
• 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped this year
• 107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today

If you spend your life giving only 99.9% , you will eventually drive yourself crazy. You can't get anywhere in life being successful by giving anything less than 100%. When you do finally give that extra .1%, everything will fall into place.