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"Repare, veja como se concentraram:
- calçado de senhora;
- rapidez;
- focalização num tipo de produto apenas;
"Efficiency means focus on costs. But the optimizing approach should focus on effectiveness. Effectiveness focuses on opportunities to produce revenue, to create markets, and to change the economic characteristics of existing products and markets. It asks not, How do we do this or that better? It asks, Which of the products really produce extraordinary economic results or are capable of producing them?
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It then asks, To what results should, therefore, the resources and efforts of the business be allocated so as to produce extraordinary results rather than the “ordinary” ones which is all efficiency can possibly produce?"
"As associações deviam estar a preparar os seus associados para o regresso dos clientes que foram para a China, a explicar-lhes o porquê, a preparar os argumentos de negociação... sem isso, vão receber o regresso dos clientes como mendigos e, assim, deixar muito dinheiro em cima da mesa"Em Fevereiro deste ano voltei a fazer um balanço do regresso dos clientes: "A maré, as duas correntes e o que não aparece nas capas dos medias"
"Precisava era de uma ideia de negócio. Algo na manga para um pequeno investidor?Sei que esta não é a área dele mas o espanhol dá boas pistas, basta estar atento aos sinais:
"P.: ¿Les asusta la crisis?Sim, eu sei, os empresários das PMEs têm medo de falar do seu sucesso, para não dar ainda mais ideias aos normandos que lançam impostos sobre tudo o que mexe. No entanto, era preciso este discurso de expectativas positivas que criam as condições para o cumprimento das profecias sobre o sucesso.
R.: No nos asusta la crisis. Miramos mucho hacia atrás. Dedicamos un ciclo de conferencias a los empresarios industriales del siglo XIX y no es tanta la diferencia entre ellos y nosotros. Creemos que la industria es fuente de riqueza, además de crear valores como el del trabajo, la puntualidad, la limpieza o el orden, que quizás se habían perdido.
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P.: ¿Existen emprendedores en el textil?
R.: Existen emprendedores, pero no tantos como quisiéramos. Quisiéramos explicar que en estos momentos existe un nicho atractivo en la industria textil. Hay una relocalización, sobre todo para series cortas y productos especiales, y es difícil encontrar industria auxiliar, acabadores, tintoreros, porque ha desaparecido. La industria es importante para la economía del país y en ello nos da la razón todo lo que ha ocurrido. La industria crea puestos de trabajo."
"Customer Relationship Management (CRM) emerged in part to cope with the growing power of customers, but Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) flips this equation and anticipates that customers will increasingly take the lead in managing their vendors."Mongo é muito mais do que uma explosão da oferta, é mesmo um virar do tabuleiro...
"We’re not just talking about mounting pressure on companies, but also the emergence of what I have called reverse markets (Moi ici: Proponho que a abordagem estratégica comece pela identificação e caracterização dos clientes-alvo. Depois, uma empresa deve tornar-se numa máquina paranóica, obsessivamente dedicada a produzir os recursos que ajudarão os clientes-alvo a produzirem as experiências que procuram e valorizam. E Hagel propõe “Buy from me because I know you as an individual customer better than anyone else and you can trust me to use that knowledge to configure the right bundle of products and services to meet your individual needs.”)Trechos retirados de "The Rise of Vendor Relationship Management"
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Most of us think of markets in conventional terms – it is about vendors seeking out customers and persuading them to buy more of their products and services. A reverse market flips this dynamic – it’s about customers seeking out the most relevant vendors and extracting more and more value at lower and lower cost. It’s a fundamentally different mindset. It turns much of what we know about business on its head."
"First, we are moving from a world of relatively scarce shelf-space to relatively scarce attention. Second, costs of production and physical distribution are significantly declining on a global scale and customer acquisition and retention costs are rising. At the risk of over-simplification, value creation is shifting from businesses driven by economies of scale in production to businesses driven by economies of scope in customer relationships. Layer in a third factor at work – the systematic and significant decline in interaction costs that make it easier for customers to identify vendors, find information about them, negotiate with them, monitor their performance and switch from one vendor to another if they are not satisfied with performance.
These three forces reinforce each other and help to explain the growing power of customers in markets around the world."
"Look, we can't compete with USA Today or the Washington Post. What we can do that nobody else can is tell you what your neighbors are up to.
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With the "names, names, names" mantra, Hoover Adams is helping his people make decision the same way that he would. And that's the value of simplicity--it helps to break up the decision paralysis your employees face and ensure that everyone is rowing the same direction."
"Mas se este investimento for para auxiliar a economia a crescer, não estamos a criar um endividamento como o que foi originado nas últimas duas décadas."Eheheh!
"Podemos então falar de conceito de Totoestratégia? Onde o bilhete premiado sai a quem melhor equilibrar o rácio de determinação com atenção ao sinais?"Este é o momento em que recordo Shakespeare e o seu "O Rei Lear", o momento em que António Guterres vem à baila com o seu "É a vida!". A vida não é justa nem injusta, é a vida. A vida não é nem moral nem imoral é amoral.
"For the first time, being different is more prized than fitting in and black-and-white thinkers are being left behind."
"É muito importante pelo que pode trazer à nossa marca de roupa desportiva personalizada."Roupa desportiva personalizada...
"O gosto de Luís pela área do desporto vem do tempo em que dividia o tempo entre as aulas e o trabalho na antiga empresa têxtil do pai, em Barcelos. Produzia roupa desportiva para alguns clubes de futebol e foi ganhando know-how. O curso de Marketing e os dois anos de pós-graduação em Propaganda, no Brasil, também ajudaram a desenhar a marca. Dinheiro, não precisou de muito: investiu seis mil euros em burocracia e maquinaria para tratamento de imagem e tecidos. Recuperou as máquinas de costura e a secção de corte de um amigo e arrendou a fábrica em Balazar, onde lidera a área administrativa e comercial. As encomendas não tardaram: além dos Paralímpicos, fornece a Federação de Ginástica de Portugal e já exporta para a Federação de Basquetebol espanhola e para o clube de basquetebol de Badajoz."Longe dos media, há gente assim, gente anónima que persegue um sonho, que agarra uma paixão e cria o seu espaço, cria o seu nicho.
"Uma das preocupações desta marca foi sempre a colaboração com outras instituições tendo desenvolvido parcerias com algumas organizações de formação de atletas."Como será o canvas desta empresa?
"Amazon Profit Margins Evaporate"
"Sem dúvida. Mais uma visão acertada, do Amancio Ortega. Anos 70."Ao lê-lo, a minha mente voou e fez logo uma série de ligações...
"In 1954, he and a partner opened a very small salon on the third floor of a building in London’s fashionable Bond Street. “Bond Street was magic to me because it meant the West End. It was where I couldn’t get a job earlier. The West End meant I was going to make it. I was determined to change the way things were done or leave hairdressing. For me it wasn’t a case of bouffants and arrangements. It was about structure and how you train the eye.”Cynthia Montgomery deu-me a conhecer a história da IKEA. Hoje, olhamos para esta descrição do mosaico de actividades IKEA:
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In the first week, they took in only fifty pounds, but after two years they had built the business to a point where they could move to the “right” end of Bond Street and compete with the top salons.
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And then one day, something caught his eye that was to transform his vision and the whole field of hairdressing. “One Saturday, one of the guys was drying a client’s hair and just using a brush and drier without any rollers. I thought about it over the weekend, and on the Monday I asked him why he had dried her hair like that. He said he’d been in a hurry and didn’t want to wait for her to come out of the dryer. ‘Hurry or not,’ I said, ‘you’ve discovered something, and we are going to work on this.’ For us, that’s how blow drying started.”
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Vidal Sassoon was to create a revolution in cutting and styling hair that changed the industry and the way that women looked around the world."
"The ideas and innovations that make a difference often appear to us, at first, as mere fragments or flickers of an idea. They’re weak signals, easily missed. The best idea people know enough to pay attention to those signals and follow them through stages of reflection and development.E agora recordo a história de Amâncio Ortega como a conheci em Novembro de 2004 na revista HBR no artigo "Rapid-Fire Fulfillment". Amâncio Ortega era um pacato subcontratado que produzia em regime de private label para quem o contratasse. Até que um dia aconteceu-lhe uma desgraça:
A classic example is the founding of Mary Kay Inc., the global direct sales company that started out as the faintest of signals.
In the early 1950s, Mary Kay Ash was selling mops and other household cleaning products at a house party in Texas, when she noticed something. It was the remarkably smooth complexions of the women there, which they owed to a homemade facial cream offered by their friend, the hostess.
At the time, Mary Kay was driven to be the best mop saleswoman she could be, and she could have easily forgotten about the women’s complexions (or not even noticed this weak signal in the first place). But she was interested in the skin cream: the hostess sent her home with a bottle, and it gave her face a similar glow."
"When a German wholesaler suddenly canceled a big lingerie order in 1975, Amancio Ortega thought his fledgling clothing company might go bankrupt. All his capital was tied up in the order. There were no other buyers. In desperation, he opened a shop near his factory in La Coruña, in the far northwest corner of Spain, and sold the goods himself. He called the shop Zara....The lesson Ortega learned from his early scare was this: To be successful, “you need to have five fingers touching the factory and five touching the customer.” Translation: Control what happens to your product until the customer buys it. In adhering to this philosophy,Zara has developed a superresponsive supply chain. The company can design, produce, and deliver a new garment and put it on display in its stores worldwide in a mere 15 days. Such a pace is unheard-of in the fashion business, where designers typically spend months planning for the next season. Because Zara can offer a large variety of the latest designs quickly and in limited quantities, it collects 85% of the full ticket price on its retail clothing, while the industry average is 60% to 70%."É fundamental, conciliar as estratégias pretendidas e deliberadas com a abertura de espírito e a atenção aos sinais que acontecem... podem fazer emergir estratégias interessantes.
"A continuação do crescimento sustentado das exportações do setor metalúrgico e metalomecânico é o dado mais relevante que resulta de um novo estudo efetuado pela AIMMAP sobre o comércio internacional.
Com efeito, depois de um crescimento de mais de 13% no primeiro quadrimestre do presente ano relativamente ao mesmo período de tempo no ano anterior, no mês de maio, as vendas para o exterior de produtos e equipamentos deste setor cresceram 8,6% face ao mês homólogo no ano 2011.
Regista-se igualmente que, conforme vinha já a acontecer nos meses anteriores, o crescimento foi bastante mais acentuado nos países fora do espaço da União Europeia, com especial incidência para a América do Sul e o Médio Oriente.
Deve sublinhar-se ainda que, em termos gerais, os números das exportações totais do país e da indústria transformadora foram neste mês de maio muito semelhantes aos verificados no setor metalúrgico e metalomecânico: 8,4% e 8,8%, respetivamente."
"O setor metalomecânico e metalúrgico inclui um universo de 23 mil empresas, 223 mil trabalhadores, um volume de negócios de cerca de 26 mil milhões de euros, dos quais 12 mil milhões são exportações, ou seja, 46 por cento do valor do negócio.".
"convém não esquecer, a produtividade por hora em Portugal representa apenas 65% da média da União Europeia."Como é que uma empresa que aposta na eficiência: trabalhando mais depressa; reduzindo desperdícios e reduzindo custos, conseguirá dar o salto dos 35 pontos percentuais em falta?
""Na conjuntura atual, as empresas portuguesas, para conseguirem sobreviver, necessitam cada vez mais de fornecer os seus produtos e serviços bem à primeira vez e de forma eficiente, uma vez que as margens de lucro são tão reduzidas e que o preço pago pelo cliente quase se confunde com o preço de custo"Para empresas que precisam de subir na escala de valor, o tempo ocupado no aumento da eficiência, não pode ser ocupado no aumento do valor acrescentado potencial... não só o tempo não é elástico, como a cultura que suporta o aumento da eficiência está em contradição com a cultura que sustenta o aumento do valor acrescentado potencial. Basta recordar o exemplo da 3M e o gráfico de Marn e Rosiello
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No evento, que contou com mais de 120 pessoas, foram abordados temas como a filosofia Lean, 6 sigma e o modelo da EFQM, que "mostraram que cada vez mais é importante considerá-los e incluí-los nas organizações para além da norma de gestão da qualidade a NP EN ISO 9001:2008", salientou José Carlos Sá.
Segundo o mesmo responsável, "a atual conjuntura exige que as empresas empreguem soluções urgentes e eficazes na redução de perdas/custos, e estas metodologias podem ser a solução consoante a realidade de cada organização"."
"Já se sabia que a Europa é o bloco económico com um dos desempenhos mais «pálidos» em 2012. Agora, os primeiros dados conhecidos (do Eurostat) ao nível das importações de calçado, confirmam as piores previsões: a Europa a 27 importou, no primeiro trimestre deste ano, menos 137 milhões de pares de calçado. Relativamente ao período homólogo do ano anterior, há a registar uma quebra de 12% para 992 milhões de pares. Também em valor, há a assinalar uma quebra, ainda que muito ligeira (0,4%) para 9364 milhões de euros. A maior quebra nos três primeiros meses do ano refere-se às importações de calçado proveniente da China."Tal e qual este esquema explica:
"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." "