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Trecho retirado de "The Business Model Innovation Factory"
"Nos dois primeiros meses do ano, segundo dados do Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Portugal exportou 14 milhões de pares de calçado, no valor de 278 milhões de euros.Trecho retirado do Notícias APICCAPS de Abril deste ano.
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As exportações estão a crescer fundamentalmente na Alemanha (mais 15% para 54 milhões de euros), Espanha (mais 6,6% para 27 milhões de euros), Dinamarca (mais 45% para 15 milhões de euros) e Bélgica (mais 11% para 9 milhões de euros).
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Em França, as vendas estabilizaram nos 76 milhões de euros nos dois primeiros meses do ano e há a registar recuos na Holanda (menos 12% para 36 milhões de euros) e Reino Unido (menos 16% para 16 milhões de euros).
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Fora do espaço europeu, as vendas de calçado português estão a crescer em praticamente todos os mercados como Rússia (mais 15% para 4 milhões de euros), EUA (mais 62% para 3 milhões de euros), Japão (mais 48% para 2,4 milhões de euros) e Canadá (mais 17% para 2,3 milhões de euros)."
"A degradação do mercado da construção, que reflete a rarefação do crédito bancário e a austeridade nas obras públicas, contamina imediatamente o investimento total, a variável mais determinante para a criação de emprego e para contrariar a redução do desemprego."Estão a começar a perder a vergonha...
"a Frezite foi mais longe e deu um salto de conceito: deixou de fornecer apenas ferramentas para englobar a "engenharia de soluções" (o que permite aos clientes ter uma resposta técnica quando são criados produtos novos) para ter novas fórmulas. Se uma empresa quer produzir um determinada linha de mobiliário, estudam as máquinas do cliente dão uma resposta técnica em função dos materiais, do lay-out da fábrica, etc, para que tal seja possível. Um ângulo impossível? Um material novo? Com a flexibilidade portuguesa no terreno quase tudo se torna possível. O desenvolvimento das ferramentas de corte para aquela nova produção vem a seguir.Uma descrição da transição da goods-dominant logic para a service-dominant logic, um mundo em que:
Por isso a Frezite tem hoje entre os seus clientes muitas empresas internacionais das mais diversas áreas industriais e onde se incluem também grandes nomes da indústria automóvel e aeroespacial. "Por exemplo na Autoeuropa, nós somos parceiros nas soluções de maquinação de peças e damos aos clientes soluções para a redução de custos de produção". A mistura entre a "engenharia da solução" e o "hardware (as ferramentas) é que determina o reforço das parcerias e o aumento do valor acrescentado."
"Goods become service appliances. Buyer judgments about the value-in-use of goods extends the time-logic of marketing. The exchange concept is no longer transaction bound. Service-ability (the capability to serve) becomes the essence of a firm’s value propositions. Service experience becomes paramount in developing and sustaining the life of a brand."Trecho retirado de "Branding in B2B markets: insights from the service-dominant logic of marketing"
"consider what happened to Kellogg when it first attempted to enter the Indian market in the early 1990s.The logic behind its decision appeared to be unassailable. With $3.8 billion in revenue and a whopping 40% share of the U.S. ready-to-eat cereal market, Kellogg was the market leader in its home base. And with sales in nearly 150 countries, it already had a formidable international presence. India was home to 950 million possible new consumers. If Indian consumers would eat as much cereal, on average, as Americans, then just 2% of the population would generate more revenue than the entire U.S. market. Surely, Kellogg could capture 2% of this vast group with a little bit of innovation.20 anos depois...
Buoyed by this optimism, Kellogg invested $65 million in establishing an operational and marketing presence to launch Corn Flakes, Wheat Flakes, and its "innovation" — Basmati Rice Flakes — throughout the country. "Our only rivals," declared the managing director of Kellogg India, "are traditional Indian foods like idlis and vadas."
"But by 2010, Kellogg had managed to capture considerably less than 1% of the population, generating revenues of only $70 million.A explicação para o fracasso encontra-se no artigo "Are You Targeting a Phantom Market?". Contudo, o ponto que aqui queria realçar é este:
How is it possible that Kellogg could envision building a $3 billion business in India, invest $65 million in the first year alone, and end up, 16 years later, with only $70 million in annual revenues? And how can other business leaders avoid making similar mistakes?"
"1. What jobs were people trying to accomplish when they either bought the current offerings in the breakfast food market or made breakfast from scratch at home?O conselho de Steve Blank...
2. How (and how well) did those products actually accomplish those jobs?
3. What offering could Kellogg profitably devise that could fulfill those jobs better?"
"In some sense, business strategy is a lot like love. There are lots of people you can love and who may love you back, but the winning combination is pretty rare. So you need to keep working on it until you get it right. It's a process. And as with love, business, and so many things in life, you shouldn't settle until you get it right. So don't. And always remember, nobody has the answer."Está bem conseguido.
"So why has GE lost 40 percent of its share value in the last ten years, and more than half its of its share value since Jeff Immelt became CEO? Why doesn’t the stock market see much of a future for GE?...
A culture of the bottom line
Obviously, the results of any large company are caused by many moving parts, but one of the root causes of GE’s decline is what CEO Jeff Immelt revealed in his 2006 conversation with Harvard Business Review (“Growth As A Process”)
“At GE, the only things that move the culture are ones that show up in our income statement. It’s just the way we were raised.”
GE is the quintessential company that is run by the numbers, focused on making money for the shareholders. Because GE does it as well as anyone, its fate can tell us where this approach leads."
"GE’s main problem today is thus a 20th Century management mindset focused on making a profit by pushing products and services at customers. It was a way of managing that worked reasonably well, decades ago, when the marketplace was dominated by a few oligopolies (customers lacked both options and information about the options) and most work was semi-skilled.
Today that world has all but vanished. The reality is that we now live in the age of customer capitalism. As a result of epochal shift of power in the marketplace from seller to buyer, the customer is now in charge. Making money and corporate survival now depend not merely on satisfying customers but delighting them. To prosper, firms must have knowledge workers who are continuously innovating and delivering a steady supply of new value to customers and delivering it sooner. The new bottom line of business is: is the customer delighted? It’s a fundamental shift from outputs to outcomes."
"Na saúde, "o setor público não pode despejar no setor privado, mas o privado pode deitar fora o que dá trabalho para o público", criticou aquele que é também professor catedrático do Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz."Por que será que isto acontece?
"O órgão será constituído por 25 elementos"e ainda
"Fazem ainda parte deste órgão vários responsáveis, entre eles membros do Governo, o presidente do conselho de administração da Agência para o Investimento e Comércio Externo de Portugal (AICEP), Pedro Reis, o presidente do conselho directivo do Instituto de Apoio às Pequenas e Médias Empresas e à Inovação (IAPMEI), bem como "15 membros especialistas, escolhidos de entre personalidades de reconhecido mérito, nacional e internacional, nas áreas do empreendedorismo e da inovação.""Volto ao "The Customer Development Manifesto":
"O INESC TEC (entidade coordenada pela INESC Porto) viu ser concedida uma patente europeia, a 21 de março de 2012, a um sistema logístico inovador desenvolvido pela Unidade de Engenharia de Sistemas de Produção (UESP) para a secção de montagem/fabrico das fábricas de calçado. Aumentos de produção, flexibilidade, produção de pequenas séries e redução do tempo de produção das encomendas são algumas das mais-valias deste trabalho."
"o objetivo é produzir em simultâneo diferentes tipos de calçado na mesma linha de produção, integrando várias secções."Tudo em linha com as bolas negras deste postal. Tudo em sintonia com o desafio de fugir da guerra dos preços mais baixos.
"«O que se está a passar no mercado de trabalho é algo que é inesperado e que não é de todo em todo compatível com aquilo que seria de esperar com o nosso nível de atividade, os valores do desemprego continuam a crescer», afirmou Luís Morais Sarmento, durante a sua audição na Comissão parlamentar de Orçamento e Finanças.
«Esta alteração da situação do mercado de trabalho sugere também que as reformas estruturais que estão a ser executadas no mercado de trabalho são mais urgentes e mais necessárias, uma vez que o mercado de trabalho está a demonstrar uma rigidez mais elevada«, afirma, garantindo que esta reforma é uma das grandes prioridades do Governo."Inesperado?
Trecho retirado de "The austerity question: ‘How’ is as important as ‘how much’"
"First, adjustments achieved through spending cuts are less recessionary than those achieved through tax increases.Second, spending-based consolidations accompanied by the right polices tend to be less recessionary or even have a positive impact on growth.
These accompanying policies include easy money policy, liberalisation of goods and labour markets, and other structural reforms.
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Third, only spending-based adjustments have eventually led to a permanent consolidation of the budget, as measured by the stabilisation – if not the reduction – of debt-to-GDP ratios."
"O governo italiano aprovou hoje, em conselho de ministros, uma série de medidas para reduzir a despesa pública de forma estrutural e evitar uma nova subida do Imposto de Valor Acrescentado (IVA) no muito curto prazo ... O aumento de dois pontos do IVA, para os 23 por cento, depois de uma primeira subida de um ponto, para os 21 por cento, em setembro, foi já determinado em dezembro, ao abrigo do último plano de austeridade. No entanto, o governo estima agora que a medida pode agravar a recessão."Trecho retirado de "Governo italiano aprova mais cortes na despesa para evitar novo aumento do IVA"
"“Customers do not do what they say they do. Our sales started to improve when we refocused from what customers were saying they wanted to what they talking about and actually doing."O que recomendo, o que me fica deste artigo é aquele trecho:
"Bob stopped trying to sell, and focused instead on listening to couples talk about the move. He heard thousands of stories about family life in the old homestead—the good times and the bad. As it happens, most of these indelible memories were forged around the dining room table—celebrations, announcements, introductions, homework, heart-to-hearts. The list went on and on.É a abordagem do antropólogo:
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Then Bob got it."
"“When you’re having the conversations, practice reading between the lines and picking up on patterns. No one will ever come out and tell you that their dining room table kept them from moving for two years, but once you hear consumers mention it enough times, you’ll realize that you need to dig deeper and unpack why they’re bringing it up. It’s those second-order insights that lead to highly successful product designs.”"É a abordagem dos batoteiros, é a vantagem dos consultores de compra sobre os vendedores.
"The new currency in the textile industry is ideas and the Thornber design team is at the heart of the company's success as it creates contemporary designs inspired by both traditional sources and their own creativity.Outro exemplo (aposta em novos sectores de actividade. Os apoios, as "parques escolares" atrasam esta procura de uma alternativa):
""About three years ago we decided to convert to tuft grass, artificial grass," explains Mr Morrison. "We make 150,000 square metres a year. There is big demand, for school playing fields, and so on."Outro exemplo (diversificação da actividade):
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And who decided on this change?
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"The tufted carpet market decided," Mr Morrison says. "We became less competitive. We had to survive, and grass was the alternative.""
"Diversification to survive is what David Collinge's company John Spencer Textiles in Blackburn also had to do."Outro exemplo (desenvolvimento de marca própria):
"John Spencer Textiles survived, and more recently, they have pursued a different strategy to future-proof their business.Outro exemplo (inovação nos materiais):
"We developed our own brand with furnishings and home textiles so we are no longer dependent on other people coming to us for business, we can generate our own," said Mr Collinge.
"This was a dramatic move, but it was the only way to go, to make a name for ourselves."
"Lance Mitchell, of Mitchell Interflex in east Lancashire, remains optimistic about the future of the textiles industry.Outro exemplo (pequenas séries de produtos exclusivos- flexibilidade, proximidade, design):
"Modern fibres are being developed all the time - McLaren cars are based on a woven product, and the next generation of aircraft, they say, will be woven. The industrial side of fabrics is fascinating," he said."
"In the town of Nelson, only one of 60 cotton weaving plants remains - S Dawes Weaving, now owned by Stephen Shepherd, who bought it in 2005.E para terminar, até o factor preço está a mudar
At first things went well, but then the recession hit the business hard, and only 15 of the 25 staff remain. They are surviving by making exclusive and expensive fabrics, often in small runs. ... She is at the heart of a new sort of ingenious, flexible, stylish textile industry, no longer concerned with size and scale alone."
""The tide is starting to turn. There is a rebalancing that's starting," he said.Um exemplo da panóplia de estratégias que podem ser seguidas num dado sector.
"Chinese costs are rising faster than British costs, so anyone who is fending off competition from the Far East is finding that it's getting easier.""
"A refinaria de Sines produz:Alguns são produtos, outros, como o enxofre ou o betume, são subprodutos que são comercializados.
Gasolina;
Gasóleo;
GPL (gás de petróleo liquefeito);
Fuelóleo;
Nafta (usada pela indústria petroquímica para fazer polímeros de onde são feitos os plásticos, as fibras para os tecidos e até a pastilha elástica);
Jet fuel (combustível para aviões);
Betume (para asfaltos e isolante);
Enxofre (para produtos farmacêuticos, agricultura e branqueamento da pasta de papel)."
"A companhia gastará 100 milhões de dólares (75,5 milhões de euros) suplementares para maximizar a infraestrutura existente para a produção de carburante para aviões."Mongo passa também por esta especialização levada ao extremo.
"O atraso educacional dos nossos empresários tem implicações evidentes. Num mundo cada vez mais globalizado, o sucesso estará reservado para os que souberem melhorar processos e dinamizar as lideranças, e para os que inovarem e arriscarem descobrindo caminhos que ainda não existem. Muito mais do que sobre os trabalhadores é sobre os patrões que recai a principal responsabilidade de relançar a economia. E para isso elevados níveis de educação são essenciais."Não sou contra a formação dos empresários, tenho é dúvidas quanto à formação oferecida. A formação só faz sentido se for uma manifestação da procura, algo que vem de dentro e não uma imposição da oferta.
"Naquele momento Jesus exultou no Espírito Santo e disse: ‘Eu te louvo, Pai, Senhor do céu e da terra, porque escondeste essas coisas aos sábios e inteligentes, e as revelaste aos pequeninos."Esta frase invade-me a mente tantas vezes... tantos empresários que, porque não foram à escola, porque não ouviram os economistas da nossa praça, tentaram e fuçaram e triunfaram...
"To compete isn’t what you should set out to do. That doesn’t mean you should slack off. To succeed you probably need to work intensely. But you should work on something that others aren’t doing. That is, focus on an area that’s not zero-sum.Perseguir um monopólio informal, criar uma exclusividade na cabeça de quem usa ou compra. Em vez de tentar ser melhor que os outros e correr na mesma corrida, tentar criar uma corrida à parte, uma corrida diferente com regras diferentes.
Sometimes, though, you need to compete. Monopoly is the theoretical ideal that you should always pursue. But you won’t always find some non-competitive, cornucopian world. You may well find yourself in competitive, zero-sum situations. You must be prepared to handle that competition."
"It is widely believed that restructuring has boosted productivity by displacing low-skilled workers and creating jobs for the high skilled."Mas, e como isto é profundo:"In essence, creative destruction means that low productivity plants are displaced by high productivity plants." Por favor voltar a trás e reler esta última afirmação.
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"Lovaglia’s Law: The more important the outcome of a decision, the more people will resist using evidence to make it."
"If an organisation is too stable it can ossify, but if it is too unstable it can disintegrate. Successful organisations work between these two conditions or states, in what Stacey called ‘the chaos zone’."
"If the customer doesn't care about the price, then the retailer shouldn't care about the cost,"
“It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required”.
"Das Leben, das uns gegeben ist, ist uns nicht als etwas Fertiges gegeben, sondern wir müssen es uns gestalten, und zwar jeder sein eigenes."
"Eine Regierung, die nichts wert ist, kostet am meisten."
"Forget trying to persuade them; light their pants on fire."
"O futuro é o que importa. O futuro é a base do significado, é de onde vem o projecto que alguém tem para si próprio"
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change.”
"o Marketing só existe a partir do pensamento estratégico, caso contrário "não resulta""
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"
"Perder diversidade é como arrancar páginas de um livro. Quantas páginas poderemos arrancar até deixar de compreender o enredo?"
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
"By strategy, I mean a cohesive response to a challenge. A real strategy is neither a document nor a forecast but rather an overall approach based on a diagnosis of a challenge. The most important element of a strategy is a coherent viewpoint about the forces at work, not a plan."
"Un desastre està punt de succeir a Espanya. El malentès de la gravetat de la crisi costarà car als inversors, ja que tindrà profundes conseqüències per a tot el sistema bancari europeu", afirma.
Entre d'altres coses, Mauldin diu que "els inversors estan fumant crack si creuen que els bancs espanyols són entre els més forts d'Europa, ja que estan amagant les seves pèrdues".
“… there are no “sunset” industries condemned to disappear in high wage economies, although there are certainly sunset and condemned strategies, among them building a business on the advantages to be gained by cheap labor”
"o vencedor da vida, o optimista que vive em incesto com o próprio ego, é o traço mais frágil do líder"
"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much
that we have done was very foolish."
You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment & make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race.
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
“Trust your guts. But not too much!”
"Customers will try 'low-cost providers,' because the majors have not given them any clear reason not to." "
"Natal é quando as Crianças pedem e os Pais pagam. Défices é quando os Pais pedem e as Crianças pagam."
"A imprevidência dos povos é infinita, a dos governos é legal"
"What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see"
“The leaders first task is to be the trumpet that sounds a clear sound”
"lamented the lack of any systematic data on the scale of unfunded IOUs that care-free politicians have handed out like confetti."
"Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul..."
O problema não é o consumo. O problema é o consumo assente em endividamento."
"There are designations, like "economist", "prostitute", or "consultant" for which additional characterization doesn't add information."
When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change, you will change"
"Hope is not a strategy and a crisis is a terrible thing to waste"
The more you can see of the present, the more you can see of the future"
Yes, You can change the future, but only changing the present"
"Entrepreneurship is 'Having aspirations greater than your resources'"
“The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be."
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that"
"A estabilidade é uma ilusão"
"When we create the conditions of possibility, the universe becomes our co-conspirator"
Thinking about doing is not doing. Talking about doing is not doing. Doing is doing."
"'God has created me to do him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another'.
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"Each of us has a mission, each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the dignity of each human person.
"As our Lord tells us in the Gospel we have just heard, our light must shine in the sight of all, so that, seeing our good works, they may give praise to our heavenly Father."
"The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination."
"confusing testosterone with strategy is a bad idea"
"Much consulting involves the application of models to a system, as opposed to getting involved in the system as a positive change agent""
"O Portugal que pára sem orçamento é precisamente aquele que vive dele e que há todo o interesse em parar."
"credibilidade da política financeira e dos seus executores está ao nível da credibilidade de uma barraca das farturas"
"The role of the manager is thought to be reduction of uncertainty rather than the capacity to live creatively in it"
"today an entrepreneur is closer to artists than managers"
"A business without a path to profit isn’t a business, it’s a hobby"
"If no one’s upset by what you’re saying, you’re probably not pushing hard enough. (And you’re probably boring, too.)"
"Storytelling isn’t just how we construct our identities, stories are our identities"
"'He who has a why to live can bear almost any how' "
"They can because they think they can"
"Se há coisa que não suporto é misturar catequese com negócios, é a incapacidade para calçar os sapatos do outro e só pensar na nossa posição de coitadinhos, pobres vítimas indefesas dos maus e que por isso precisamos do Estado todo poderoso para nos proteger e, nem percebem na volta, os juros que o Estado cobra por esse serviço mafioso de protecção que, ainda por cima não resolve nada."
"Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble."
"In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep"
"Value it's a feeling not a calculation"
"An economist is someone who has had a human being described to him, but has never actually seen one."
"Don't finish first--it's not about running a rat race. Start with a better ending in mind."
"If you sit in on a poker game and don’t see a sucker, get up. You’re the sucker.”
"The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided."
"Crediting government with the success of entrepreneurs is like crediting the guy who built Bill Gates’ garage with the success of Microsoft."
"I have found that assuming social scientists understand the difference between correlation and causality is not generally a good one."
"Promising never to raise taxes, without reaching a deal on spending, really means a high and rising commitment to future taxes."
"Some things are so foolish that only an intellectual could believe them, for no ordinary man could be such a fool"
"os bancos não financiam a economia, a poupança sim"
"I do not know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody"
"Never be afraid to try, remember... Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."
"terms such as 'experiment' and 'observation' cover complex processes containing many strands. 'Facts' come from negotiations between different parties and the final product - the published report - is influenced by physical events, dataprocessors, compromises, exhaustion, lack of money, national pride and so on."
"'science in the making' is 'the consequence of [a] settlement' of 'controversies'."
"If the state wishes to spend more, it can do so only by borrowing your savings or taxing you more. And it's no good thinking someone else will pay, that someone else is you."
"All failures of strategy are rooted in the assumption that outcomes are predictable."
"Doing things like your bigger competitors is how to get killed in the wars out there"
“Uma moeda boa e forte é como a saúde. Só lhe damos verdadeiramente valor quando não a temos.”
"Life’s tough. It’s tougher if you’re stupid"
"O homem de bem exige tudo de si próprio; o homem medíocre espera tudo dos outros"
"Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me."
"As elites foram deixando de falar das exportações à medida que se foi percebendo que o país consegue exportar sem elas"
"Your toughest competition is the little voice inside your head telling you to stop"
"Pain is just weakness leaving your body"
"Built to last" is bad economics. Built to do something great" is the better idea. Think: "Creative destruction."
"the world is an uncertain place no matter how many Greek letter equations you affix to a problem."
"You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change s.th., build a new model making the existing model obsolete"
“No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.”
"Success is not a destination. It's the trail you leave behind you."
"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."
“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology – not the other way around”
"Strategy as the "smallest set of - intended or actual - choices and decisions sufficient to guide all other choices and decisions sufficient to guide all other choices and decisions."
"When something is commoditized, an adjacent market becomes valuable"
"nature evolves away from constraints, not toward goals"
"There aren't any textbooks on what to stop doing!"
"With great power comes great irresponsibility "
"Weird things happen when you take price out of the equation for consumers"
"‘It’s so damn complex. If you ever think you have the solution to this, you’re wrong and you’re dangerous.’"
"Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."
"Increasing stuff that doesn't add value dilutes existing value."
"O federalismo não é a alternativa à troika, é a troika para sempre."
"Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts"
"Stressors are information"
“If you hear a “prominent” economist using the word ‘equilibrium,’ or ‘normal distribution,’ do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.”
"The advantage of experiences over things for most of us is that we can make them seem unique, which = scarce, which = value"
"Pedras no caminho?
Guardo todas, um dia vou construir um castelo"
"Without risk, faith is an impossibility."
"Não posso com quem vive a achar que os outros lhe devem sempre alguma coisa."
"In a world of increasing automation, our ability to perform tasks is not nearly as important as our ability to dream. The questions we need to ask are not ones of action, but ones of meaning"
"Me arrancam tudo a força e depois me chamam de contribuinte."
"Letting people vote for expensive programs that “somebody else” will finance is a good recipe for getting people to vote irresponsibly"
"what's fairness gotta do with pricing based in value?"
"The epic battle of our generation is between the status quo of mass and the never-ceasing tide of weird."
“Price is emotional”
"There will always be a reason why you can't pursue it, until competitors create a reason why you must."
"The most important thing to study is opening theory"
"The greater the contrast, the greater the potential"
“Customers don't care about your solution, they care about their problems.”
"Todos querem conhecer a verdade, mas o que desejam é que lhes contem uma mentira em que não sejam protagonistas."
"Execution efficiency strangles innovation in the crib, but not with malice, by default.”
"Our obsession with scalability is getting in the way of unleashing the potential of the 21st century."
"The system is optimized to mitigate risk, not create value"
"Champions are made when no one is looking"
"Don't bargain on value. Half as expensive is often twice as cheap."
"Customers care about outcomes, not effort, technology, or originality."
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"You don't have to pick between 1) playing the game and 2) not playing the game. You can *change* the game."
""The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." "