What it Means to "Do your best" -- If 99.9% is Good Enough

Author Unknown

If 99.9% is good enough then....

• 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
• 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped/year
• 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled/hour
• 2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS this year
• 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers
• Two planes landed at Chicago's O'Hare airport will be unsafe every day
• 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled
• 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written this year
• 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips
• 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly during the year
• 5.5 million cases of soft drinks produced will be flat
• 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly
• 3056 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections