"In the liquor industry, one of the only things hotter than Kentucky bourbon is super-expensive Kentucky bourbon."
Trecho retirado de "Bourbon Sells, and Pricey Bourbon Sells Even Better"
"In the liquor industry, one of the only things hotter than Kentucky bourbon is super-expensive Kentucky bourbon."
"Since at least the early ’90s, we’ve been hearing that Mass Customization is going to change the consumer landscape, but by and large, we still buy manufactured goods the way we have since the middle of last century.
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But despite the slow progress, I believe that we’re finally at the cusp of a new era in product design, in which truly “designed by me” products will be available in a range of categories. The most successful manufacturers of the next ten years will be those who seize this opportunity before their competitors do.
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First, we’ve seen dramatic improvements in flexible automated fabrication,
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Second, rising labor costs and stronger currency are reducing the appeal of high-volume Chinese manufacturing, and nudging more companies to move operations closer to their headquarters or their customers. Third, the demand for more personalized experiences, nurtured by our highly customizable digital devices, is on the rise. Combine these three, and you have a future in which companies offer customers fine-grained control over their manufacturing output, and earn loyalty and competitive advantage in return.
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While this technology is getting us closer, and the consumer desire certainly there, what we still don’t have is a broad understanding of how to design for this hyper-personalized future.
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I would even argue that we don’t have much of a choice. The combination of demand, speed, and automated flexibility are pushing us quickly to a point where physical products will be held to the same expectations as digital ones."
"What marketing mistake do most small businesses make?O truque é este, é deixar de pensar na massa, na média e concentrar-se num nicho... é fugir de pensar na miudagem e nos fantasmas estatísticos e olhar olhos nos olhos para um grupo específico.
They believe in the mass market instead of obsessing about a micro market. They seek the mass market because it feels harder to fail--there's always one more stranger left to bother. It's the small, the weird, and the eager that will make or break you.
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Why are most marketing messages so dreadful?
Because marketing is an artifact of the industrial age, and the industrial age is about mass and volume and average stuff for average people, produced in bulk. Of course, once you have an assembly line in the works, you're going to play it safe..."
"we were able to survive against the gigantic big toy companies just for one reason..."E o da sua empresa, qual é?
"BOARDS BUILT FOR YOU, NOT THE AVERAGE (Moi ici: Diz tudo)
Start customizing the board made for you. Limitless possibilities based on personal preferences and your style. Our data-driven approach helps you build exactly what you need."
"Capturing margin from your suppliers isn’t an appropriate strategy for service industries businesses (Moi ici: Mas como "Tudo é serviço") where value cannot be—or should not be—captured from down line suppliers. (Moi ici: Recordar "Ver o filme dos últimos anos") In service industry businesses, or businesses that choose a customer intimacy strategy, chasing the bottom and selling price results in a lack of the profit necessary to invest in creating the value their clients expect—and need.
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When you sell customer intimacy, when you sell real business results and real value creation, you profit from the value you create, not the margins you make from your suppliers.
Chasing the bottom and selling price has led to greater client churn because the lack of profit has led to a lack of the necessary investment in getting results (Moi ici: Recordar "Pois... e capitalização para investir"") (I don’t have scientific evidence or surveys to prove this, but I have plenty of experience that bears this point out—and I’ll bet you do to)."
"Proponho outra abordagem, ir ao fim da linha, ao utilizador final e pensar: "O que é que será melhor para ele?". Isso é que vai ditar a evolução do ecossistema da procura,"encontro "You Are Probably Underestimating The Value Of At-Home 3-D Printing":
"Few people expect 3D printing--particularly in the home--to be as much of a revolution as it actually could be.Isto vai ser mesmo o Estranhistão!!!
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But the household economics of 3D printing, when considered more academically, suggest that relatively low-tech 3-D printers in the home of the average user can equate to incredible high cash savings for a family's bottom line.
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The results may surprise you. 3-D printing the 20 chosen objects cost only about $20 and took around 25 hours. In a store, depending on the quality of the products chosen, the same items would cost between $300 and about $2,000. Assuming the average family would only print about 20 objects of similar practical utility in a year, a printer like a RepRap would pay for itself in savings in just about four years.
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Developments of this type mean that 3-D printing at home, where one either creates an object to print, finds a version online, or scans a pre-existing object that you perhaps intend to replace, is already an economically sensible proposition. Then take this idea and imagine what it would mean if your local corner store had a printer, even if your home didn't?"
"As demand for more tailored products grows, industrial product manufacturers face the challenge of keeping pace. One solution could lie in developing mass-customization capabilities facilitated by 3D printing. (Moi ici: Será que faz sentido pensar na mass-customization quando a democratização da produção pode avançar e permitir que cada um produza em sua casa ou recorra a um "artesão" para fazer as coisas à sua maneira?)
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The appeal of mass-customization, the mass-production of individually customized goods and services, lies in its potential to help manufacturers reduce costs and gain a competitive advantage (Moi ici: É natural que este seja o pensamento de quem olha para o fenómeno pelo lado das empresas, grandes ou pequenas. Aqui, tento abrir mais a perspectiva e questionar se o ponto é mesmo o dos custos ou, se não será o da proximidade, o da flexibilidade, o da "made by me", o da "do it yourself". O autor sublinha os custos, eu, pensando pelo lado das empresas pensaria no pós democratização da produção. Como é que uma PME pode aspirar a captar clientes quando os clientes podem fazer em casa, ou podem mandar fazer num "artesão do seu bairro"? Talvez as PMEs do futuro sejam "a oficina de artesãos do bairro". Os clientes podem fazer em o jantar em casa, no entanto, continuam a existir restaurantes abertos à noite. São mais baratos? Por que é que se vai jantar a um restaurante quando se pode fazer o jantar em casa? O factor custo está envolvido na decisão de ir ao restaurante?), in this emerging market. The use of 3D printing, a technology that is moving toward broad industrial use, is becoming a key aid to customizing products on a large scale.
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Integrating 3D printing into manufacturing processes could reduce production material costs by as much as 90 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. It also could help manufacturers better respond to on-demand production and improve their long-tail product operations.
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Although the general rule has been that mass-produced items are much cheaper when made in large quantities, the trend toward more customized production will impact the mass-production model, where standardization of items has been an adequate and preferred trait. (Moi ici: Sempre o ponto de vista dos mass-producers e o que lhes pode ser útil. Proponho outra abordagem, ir ao fim da linha, ao utilizador final e pensar: "O que é que será melhor para ele?". Isso é que vai ditar a evolução do ecossistema da procura, a menos que, amigos em posições de influência nos governos, decidam proteger os incumbentes) Mass-customization might not replace mass-production anytime soon, but to sustain a strong competitive position, manufacturers should be prepared to incorporate elements of 3D printing into their processes.
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Though mass-customization will be increasingly critical to producing tailored items, so will the creative process needed to optimize their design. The digital platform on which 3D printing is based can enable multiple individuals—from an organization’s product engineers and other employees to customers and industry outsiders—to contribute to design ideas, resulting in more differentiated, better-designed products. This concept, called co-creation, will help companies become more agile and flexible in meeting the product needs of a rapidly changing market. (Moi ici: E se a coisa puder ser feita numa rede social, qual a vantagem em existir uma empresa pelo meio? Não fará mais sentido um indivíduo ou uma cooperativa de indivíduos? Coase tem sido muito citado neste blogue nos últimos tempos)
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Three-dimensional printing moves design closer to prototyping, (Moi ici: Impressão 3D levanta logo o tema da propriedade intelectual e das patentes. O que acontece nos sectores em que o design não é objecto de patente, como no vestuário? A forma de sobreviver é a moda!!! É a criação sucessiva de versões diferentes. No vestuário, vamos a caminho das 52 épocas por ano, veja-se o caso da Zara) and thus new product concepts can be created in less time than traditional methods, which required sending designs to external prototyping firms.
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The impact of 3D printing will be felt in the supply chain because on-demand part creation means some parts will no longer be shipped. Businesses will need to develop a digital inventory management system for warehousing 3D digital files to support their inventory and mass-customization capabilities.
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As 3D printing and mass-customization processes advance, manufacturers will be able to respond more quickly to demand for the increasing variety of customized products"
"Aquilo que reparo é que, apesar de faturarmos muito, ao fim do ano fica pouquíssimo. Se quisermos tratar as pessoas que trabalham connosco de forma justa, se quisermos ser absolutamente corretos, se cumprirmos todas as nossas obrigações, o mínimo que se pode fazer - não se pode exigir nada ao Estado sem cumprir escrupulosamente tudo o que há para cumprir -, de facto, não fica grande coisa. É um facto."Se o Estado saca quase tudo, pouco fica para capitalizar e crescer. Depois, é preciso recorrer à banca.
"Morre um panda bebé!"A situação, porque é situação, tenta, qual cuco, aproveitar o sucesso alheio "Pires de Lima: Crescimento das exportações é um "feito extraordinário"". E sempre que o fazem:
"Morrem, um panda bebé e um gatinho bebé!"Este blogue começou a ser escrito para ser um prolongamento da minha memória. Por isso, não esqueço:
Quer a oposição, quer a situação deviam perceber que o desempenho das exportações se faz, apesar de ambos, apesar das dificuldades que ambos teimam em levantar.
"It’s no secret that in many industries today, upstream activities—such as sourcing, production, and logistics—are being commoditized or outsourced, while downstream activities aimed at reducing customers’ costs and risks are emerging as the drivers of value creation and sources of competitive advantage."Os que se queixam da diferença de preço entre a gasolina no Pingo Doce e a gasolina na autoestrada, da diferença de preço entre a água da torneira e a água gelada engarrafada na banca da praia, da diferença de preço entre a encomenda feita com um mês de antecedência e a encomenda feita para ontem, deviam reflectir:
"Consider a consumer’s purchase of a can of Coca-Cola. In a supermarket or warehouse club the consumer buys the drink as part of a 24-pack. The price is about 25 cents a can. The same consumer, finding herself in a park on a hot summer day, gladly pays two dollars for a chilled can of Coke sold at the point-of-thirst through a vending machine. That 700% price premium is attributable not to a better or different product but to a more convenient means of obtaining it. What the customer values is this: not having to remember to buy the 24-pack in advance, break out one can and find a place to store the rest, lug the can around all day, and figure out how to keep it chilled until she’s thirsty."Tento passar ás empresas a mensagem de que uma excessiva concentração nos custos e na produção, no nosso umbigo, ocupa largura de banda, espaço de atenção, que devia ser dedicado a estudar os clientes-alvo, a tentar perceber o que é valorizado por eles:
"Downstream activities—such as delivering a product for specific consumption circumstances—are increasingly the reason customers choose one brand over another and provide the basis for customer loyalty..
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Yet business strategy continues to be driven by the ghost of the Industrial Revolution, long after the factories that used to be the primary sources of competitive advantage have been shuttered and off-shored. Companies are still organized around their production and their products, success is measured in terms of units moved, and organizational hopes are pinned on product pipelines. Production-related activities are honed to maximize throughput, and managers who worship efficiency are promoted. (Moi ici: O eficientismo tão criticado neste blogue) Businesses know what it takes to make and move stuff. The problem is, so does everybody else.
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The strategic question that drives business today is not “What else can we make?” but “What else can we do for our customers?” Customers and the market—not the factory or the product—now stand at the core of the business."
"Sopormetal, empresa que nasceu há quase 30 anos, dedicada então apenas à comercialização de produtos ligados à soldadura. (Moi ici: Especulo que o contacto com os clientes, com o mercado, permitiu perceber que existia um nicho por servir) A produção própria tornou-se realidade há cerca de sete anos, e foi nessa altura que a empresa se aventurou no mercado externo.A aposta na inovação para um conjunto de clientes que estão underserved. O sublinhado final diz tudo, mais um missionário do Evangelho do Valor!!!
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Com 53 colaboradores e um volume de negócios de cinco milhões de euros em 2012, os materiais que a empresa de Albergaria-a-Velha produz “são muito técnicos, como ligas especiais com componentes de metais não ferrosos, ligas de prata, ligas de cobre, zinco e fósforo, especialmente fortes para uma indústria técnica”, sublinha Bruno Cadima, sendo usadas em vários tipos de indústria, desde a construção, principalmente na área das instalações de gás, ao automóvel, à joalharia, à eletrónica, à aeronáutica e à refrigeração.
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a empresa realizou recentemente um grande investimento a nível laboratorial, em conjunto com a Universidade de Aveiro. Por isso, nos próximos dois anos o objetivo de Bruno Cadima passa por apostar no desenvolvimento de produto. “Ao vendermos o que é normal e usual, estamos a discutir sempre o preço, e muitas vezes o que acontece é que estamos a baixar as margens. (Moi ici: É o mesmo tipo de linguagem de Hermann Simon". Recordei logo aquele grito "Não somos cortadores de custos!!!) Então queremos fazer I&D”, diz, explicando que, para isso, vai recorrer a know-how das universidades."
"provavelmente mais do que apoios a empresas, há que retirar obstáculos ao seu desenvolvimento"Só retirava o "provavelmente".
"Mais vale rico e com saúde do que pobre e doentio"A família parou, processou e, a minha mulher que não conhecia a frase disse qualquer coisa como:
"Isso é básico, claro que é preferível ser rico e com saúde do que pobre e doentio"A frase é óbvia e até gera sorrisos porque quem a ouve está à espera de um trade-off do género:
"Mais vale ser pobre e com saúde do que rico e doentio"Ou vice-versa.
"Patrick Monteiro de Barros defendeu que "o problema [baixo salário mínimo] resolve-se aumentando a educação, a produtividade global", mas considerou que "não há vontade política para fazê-lo"."Quer dizer que se forçarmos legislativamente um aumento da produtividade global ele vai acontecer?
"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." "