"First, define yourself, then, define your audience"Agora, encontro este postal de Rags, tão ao nosso jeito "Don’t touch that pricing dial":
"Don’t touch the pricing dial before you understand your customers and their needs."
"First, define yourself, then, define your audience"Agora, encontro este postal de Rags, tão ao nosso jeito "Don’t touch that pricing dial":
"Don’t touch the pricing dial before you understand your customers and their needs."
"Sales of LP records have quadrupled since 2007. It’s a powerful reminder that convenience isn’t the only thing people care about. Music, like video and telecommunications, reached a digital/analog split long ago, and digital won because it’s cheaper, faster, and more convenient. But analog persists, in part because of nostalgia but also because formats like film, print, and vinyl reflect the people and processes that made them, forming an emotional connection that digital can’t match.
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Stop worrying about the contradictions. 2013 will not be the year that analog displaces digital, nor will any other year. But it will be the year when mainstream consumers start to embrace “outdated” technologies along with cutting-edge ones. A brand that can seamlessly straddle the divide makes far more sense to them."
"more goods will be manufactured at or close to their point of purchase or consumption. This might even mean household-level production of some things.Ontem, na viagem de comboio nocturna, ouvia Seth Godin nos meus ouvidos a perguntar:
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many goods that have relied on the scale efficiencies of large, centralized plants will be produced locally. Even if the per-unit production cost is higher, it will be more than offset by the elimination of shipping and of buffer inventories. Whereas cars today are made by just a few hundred factories around the world, they might one day be made in every metropolitan area. Parts could be made at dealerships and repair shops, and assembly plants could eliminate the need for supply chain management by making components as needed.
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goods will be infinitely more customized, because altering them won’t require retooling, only tweaking the instructions in the software. Creativity in meeting individuals’ needs will come to the fore, (Moi ici: Recordar os velhos de 24 anos que reclamam que o futuro vai ser mau e é preciso deixar o design para os designers "Tão novos e já tão velhos...") just as quality control did in the age of rolling out sameness. (Moi ici: E a malta da qualidade ao mais alto nível não percebe isto? Recordar "O perigo da cristalização")
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These first-order implications will cause businesses all along the supply, manufacturing, and retailing chains to rethink their strategies and operations. And a second-order implication will have even greater impact. As 3-D printing takes hold, the factors that have made China the workshop of the world will lose much of their force.
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China has grabbed outsourced-manufacturing contracts from every mature economy by pushing the mass-manufacturing model to its limit. It not only aggregates enough demand to create unprecedented efficiencies of scale but also minimizes a key cost: labor.
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Under a model of widely distributed, highly flexible, small-scale manufacturing, these daunting advantages become liabilities."
"Who do you want to become, a linchpin or a cog?"E veio-me logo à mente esta imagem:
"Entretanto, fonte da Danone em Portugal garantiu à TSF que a produção da fábrica de Castelo Branco não vai ser afetada pela reestruturação que o grupo agroalimentar vai fazer na Europa, mas nos escritórios em Lisboa é certo que haverá despedimentos."Ontem, sublinhei:
"A região de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo foi a que registou maior número de despedimentos, com um total de 594 trabalhadores despedidos no âmbito de despedimento colectivos concretizados por 53 empresas."Hoje, encontro:
"Dos 120 postos de trabalho a criar até 2015 através deste investimento de oito milhões de euros, 40 a 60 estarão a trabalhar até ao final do primeiro semestre.Detectam dois padrões?
A Altran passou por "algumas dificuldades" na primeira fase de recrutamento de engenheiros para o centro de serviços "Nearshore", que arrancará em Março no Fundão."
"Most people in the US can't cook. So you would think that reaching out to the masses with entry-level cooking instruction would be a smart business move.Quem procura ajuda são os melhores, que querem melhorar ainda mais.
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In fact, as the Food Network and cookbook publishers have demonstrated over and over again, you're way better off helping the perfect improve. You'll also sell a lot more management consulting to well run companies, high end stereos to people with good stereos and yes, church services to the already well behaved."
"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."
"Infelizmente, circula por aí a ideia de um grande projecto de reabilitação urbana, investimento financiado pelo Estado, sob o argumento de que é necessário estimular a procura interna, e as empresas de construção em particular. Porém, como diria o célebre economista Henry Hazlitt, autor do clássico "Economia numa única lição", é importante que não se confunda procura com necessidade. E num país como Portugal, que tem milhares de casas novas à venda, não se entende que necessidade prática poderá existir em torno da reabilitação de casas antigas com dinheiro público. Por outras palavras, sendo a oferta manifestamente superior à procura, é altamente improvável que possa aqui existir uma verdadeira necessidade; haverá, quanto muito, uma procura induzida por investimento artificial que apenas agravará o desequilíbrio económico naquele sector em particular. Trata-se, pois, de despesa pública no mau sentido, de mais impostos, de mais dívida pública, ou de mais dos dois, e portanto o oposto do que se deveria pretender."E esta reflexão de Carlos Novais "Keynes IV":
"Keynes distorceu os economistas clássicos propagando erroneamente a chamada Lei de Say como formulando que esta diria:
“a produção cria a sua própria procura”."
"The results indicate that firm effects explain most of the variance in four performance variables but that the impact of business definition on performance could be underestimated. It turns out, according to our findings, that business membership (and thus differences in business definition) explains about 8 percent of the variance in performance between firms within the examined industry.
Consequently, managers should carefully monitor and examine the business domain they are in as it directly related with the firm’s level of performance.
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Our analysis of the business definition-performance link indicates that business definition choices do have performance implications but that the relative impact of industry, firm and business domain effects on performance has received scant empirical study and is still unclear.
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This study is, however, the first study to further analyze the performance heterogeneity within an industry by considering the effect of business membership and thus the effect of business domain choices. Indeed, there may be more than one business domain within an industry: different product offerings (the supply side) can be combined with different market segments (the demand side) with a different geographical reach.
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One of the major discussions in strategy concerns the determinants of firm performance. Academics from various backgrounds have focused on explaining firm performance and on identifying the sources of inter-firm performance differences. Researchers in the industrial-organization tradition, for example, have argued that industry structure is a central determinant of firm performance and contend that the structural features of an industry effect the competitive position of all business units in that specific industry. However, the inability of the industrial-organization tradition to provide a rigorous explanation for intra-industry heterogeneity in performance has stimulated strategy researchers to focus on the firm itself. As a result, firms were no longer viewed as identical “black boxes” in a given market structure but as dynamic collections of specific capabilities influenced by differing organizational structures and specific strategic decisions.
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One of these vital strategic decisions, assumed to impact organizational performance, is the (implicit or explicit) selected business definition. Especially in the case of small and medium sized enterprises (SME’s) an adequate business definition seems to be of vital importance as the traditional explanation for their success is that SME’s choose their battles carefully.
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The study results indicate that the examined industry consists of two distinct business domains whereby business domain membership explains about 8% of the variance in performance. The findings should urge managers to carefully (re)consider where (in terms of businesses) they are competing within the industry. Managers should pay (more) attention on business definition dimensions as business definition choices have operational consequences that affect the performance bottom-line."
"Italians born in 1970, who are about 43 now, will pay 50% more in taxes as a percentage of their lifetime income than those born in 1952, according to research from the Bank of Italy and the University of Verona. The research also found they will receive half the pension benefits that Italy's 60-somethings are getting or are poised to get.".
"Its simple generations theft and greed. The older generation took it to heart that in the long run they are dead so why not enjoy the present to the max. The west's generational greed and narcissism and elimination of religious moral imperatives that the left eliminated from the public's consciousness has led to this development. Lets call a spade a spade and admit that the present generation out of greed and selfishness looted their children's and grand-children's future. One of the reasons that there are so few children in Europe. The present child bearing generation is aware of the theft and cannot afford to raise children under the knowledge of the crushing tax burden being shouldered by them. The public and the politicians have fleeced one generation that can not vote for the privileges of the generation that can. The post war generation has destroyed western society."
"Especialistas universitários apontam o recurso à agricultura protegida para a produção intensiva de frutas, legumes e flores como a solução para “potenciar a rentabilidade económica” e atrair jovens para o sector.O que peço é que tenham cuidado com este tipo de linguagem:
As Universidades e os Politécnicos do Norte propõem a alteração do paradigma actual de agricultura extensiva para um centrado na agricultura em estufa, devido ao "tipo e dimensão da propriedade agrícola e à interligação do urbano com o rural” nesta região."
"os especialistas universitários apontaram como primeira solução para dinamizar o sector o recurso à agricultura protegida"Pode ser confundida com receita única.
“Não pensem que é pelos baixos salários que se garante a competitividade da economia”.Não podia estar mais de acordo como é fácil de perceber, pesquisando o assunto neste blogue.
"A Amorim, a maior produtora de cortiça nacional, encerrou 2012 com um recorde de 511 milhões de euros em vendas, relatando um aumento de 22,9% face ao ano anterior. Em termos absolutos, o EBITDA da empresa registou um crescimento de 13,8%, ascendendo a 82,5 milhões de euros.Pessoalmente, não gosto de muitas práticas que a Amorim segue com os seus fornecedores; contudo, tenho de reconhecer que têm feito um trabalho notável na área da inovação, no desenvolvimento de novas aplicações para a cortiça.
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João Rui Ferreira, presidente da Associação Portuguesa da Cortiçar (Apcor) refere que “o aumento das exportações demonstra, por um lado, a preferência dos mercados pelos produtos de cortiça e, por outro lado, é o resultado da estratégia da indústria da cortiça, levada a cabo nos últimos anos. A inovação e o reforço dos índices de qualidade dos produtos aliados a uma clara aposta na comunicação e em novos mercados são alguns dos exemplos do trabalho em curso que nos conforta e inspira para um futuro mais promissor”.
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A Amorim, por sua vez, refere que o seu sucesso se deve tanto ao aumento da eficiência operacional como à diversificação das suas actividades e ao incremento do negócio extra europeu."
"Exportam brinquedos para o Reino Unido, componentes de calçado para Itália ou assessórios de moda em pele de cortiça para a Alemanha. São pequenas e médias empresas portuguesas e não receiam a concorrência dos mercados europeus mais sofisticados.
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A aposta na exportação para mercados mais sofisticados é também uma realidade para a Atlanta Itália, Alemanha ou os países nórdicos estão desde há vários anos na rota desta empresa do distrito do Porto (Moi ici: Na Lixa) que se dedica ao fabrico de componentes para calçado.
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Aqui, ganham peso as apostas na investigação e em novos produtos, mas, também, o cumprimento rigoroso dos prazos contratualizados com os clientes, diz Joana Cunha.
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A presença nos mercados do Norte da Europa ou dos Estados Unidos da América é a consequência directa da estratégia gizada para a Silvex. O investimento na investigação de novos materiais e produtos foi fulcral, evidencia Hernâni Magalhães, administrador desta empresa. "Em 2009, apostámos no desenvolvimento de produtos à base de polímeros biodegradáveis, sabendo que o seu destino seriam mercados diferentes do português, nomeadamente, Norte da Europa, Escandinávia, Alemanha e Inglaterra", explica ao Negócios.
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A "invenção" de uma película aderente biodegradável , um produto que despertou interesse nos mais diversos mercados, fez com que chegassem aos mercados europeus e norte-americano. E não só. "Há interesse de outros países, como, por exemplo, a Austrália,"
"a thorough understanding of customers’ everyday practices ‘‘has to be the starting-point (Moi ici: A finalidade do cliente não é comprar algo ao fornecedor, o cliente compra algo ao fornecedor como um instrumento, como um artifício para atingir algo na sua vida, um objectivo, um trabalho (JTBD), uma experiência) for developing a customer-centric offering based on a service logic.’’ The more that firms are aware of their customers’ resource integration goals, preferences, requirements, desired experiences, usage situations, and experience environments, the better value propositions and outcomes can be cocreated. As value is a subjectively perceived phenomenon and individually determined, it is considered phenomenological and context-dependent in S-D logic. Accordingly, customers must be examined at the individual level (Moi ici: A nossa velha metáfora da miudagem - aqui e aqui) in addition to the aggregate level. The need to move away from mass and segment-based marketing toward individuals and an ‘‘experience of one’’ has been highlighted with respect to business practice.".
"China destruye empleo por primera vez en treinta años. El gigante asiático perdió en 2012 un total de 3,45 millones de puestos de trabajo como consecuencia de la transformación industrial del país, según datos de la oficina china de estadística (NBS, en sus siglas en inglés), que publica el diario local Global Times."Quase ao nível desta galinha com dentes...
"“Mais de metade da população residente em Lisboa é pensionista”Como será Portugal? Como será viver num país com 6,5 a 7 milhões de habitantes?
"Há formas mais fáceis e mais rápidas de produzir salpicões, chouriças ou presunto. Mas a Mihofumeiro teima em fazer enchidos e fumados segundo a tradição, com os tempos necessários de frio e fumo.
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Uma teimosia que, segundo António Paulino, tem valido a pena. "Não abdicamos de tudo o que seja imprescindível para a qualidade dos nossos produtos. Até a salsa, a cebola e o vinho que utilizamos são produzidos na região e em exclusividade para a nossa empresa. Tem sido este o segredo do nosso sucesso", assegura o administrador.
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A nossa missão é manter os sabores tradicionais dos enchidos de Ponte de Lima: não abdicar de um elevado nível de qualidade, obtido a partir de processos produtivos assumidamente artesanais (Moi ici: Como me soa bem este "assumidamente") e da criteriosa selecção das matérias-primas", diz António Paulino, acrescentando que, "para além das carnes, os ingredientes, como cebola, alhos, salsa ou vinho, são provenientes dos campos do vale do Lima". "Nós damos mesmo muita importância à matéria-prima com que trabalhamos. A prova disso é que usamos flor de sal e não o sal vulgar, o que confere aos produtos um sabor singular': acrescenta António Paulino."
- Formularam uma estratégia, traduziram essa estratégia num mapa da estratégia. Contudo, a estratégia nunca está terminada. Mesmo que o mundo não mudasse, a estratégia deve ser sempre alvo de aperfeiçoamento e melhorias.
"In my metaphor, managers are craftsmen and strategy is their clay. Like the potter, they sit between a past of corporate capabilities and a future of market opportunities. And if they are truly craftsmen, they bring to their work an equally intimate knowledge of the materials at hand. That is the essence of crafting strategy.Acho super interessante como metáfora pensar na evolução de uma estratégia da mesma forma que um oleiro molda o barro nas suas mãos... ele parte de uma ideia deliberada, depois, com o trabalhar do barro, com o jogo entre as mãos e o material, enquanto a roda gira, vão surgindo ideias para concretizar ainda mais a intenção inicial.
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One idea leads to another, until a new pattern forms. Action has driven thinking: a new strategy emerged.
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My point is simple, deceptively simple: startegies can form as well as be formulated.
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To manage strategy is to craft thought and action, control and learning, stability and change.
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Craftsmen have to train themselves to see, to pick up things other people miss. 'The same holds true for managers of strategy It is those with a kind of peripheral vision who are best able to detect and take advantage of events as they unfold."
"No craftsman thinks some days and works others. The craftsman's mind is going constantly in tandem with her hands. Yet large organizations try to separate the work of minds and hands. In so doing, they often sever the vital feedback link between the two.
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In practice, of course, all strategy making walks on two feet, one deliberate, the other emergent. For just as purely deliberate strategy making precludes learning, so purely emergent strategy making precludes control. Pushed to the limit, neither approach makes much sense. Learning must be coupled with control. ...
Likewise, there is no such thing as a purely deliberate strategy or a purely emergent one. No organization—not even the ones commanded by those ancient Greek generals— knows enough to work everything out in advance, to ignore learning en route. And no one - not even a solitary potter - can be flexible enough to leave everything to happenstance, to give up all control. Craft requires control just as it requires responsiveness to the material at hand. Thus deliberate and emergent strategy form the end points of a continuum along which the strategies that are crafted in the real world may be found."
"Com as vendas de azulejos e pavimentos cerâmicos em queda já há vários anos, no mercado interno, não é de admirar que o número de fabricantes tenha acompanhado a tendência e seja, hoje, menor. O que é curioso é que há menos 40% de empresas e menos 600 postos de trabalho, mas o tamanho médio dos operadores cresceu. O número médio de efectivos por empresa, é de 104 empregados, quase 30 mais do que em 2008.Agora vou especular e, contra aquilo que costumo ser, vou adoptar uma postura pessimista:
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Basta vermos que, em 2012, o mercado nacional valeu 155 milhões de euros, o que representa uma quebra de 12,4% face ao ano anterior. O que é significativo se tivermos em conta que, em 2011, a contração das vendas fora já de 19%.
Em contrapartida, as exportações cresceram 2%, para um total de 256 milhões de euros e representando 67% da produção total nacional. Em 2009, só eram destinados aos mercados externos 57,6% das vendas."
"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." "