Regressamos ao nível de Novembro de 2011.
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A evolução homóloga do desemprego e a evolução mensal de desemprego entre Janeiro de 2011 e Novembro de 2014:
"Not only are the the sheer number of independent contractors increasing, but so are the companies leveraging said workers. These companies are hiring contractors at scale to serve multiple functions across multiple industries. These enterprises are realizing how valuable independent workers can be in improving the bottom-line, accelerating the pace of innovation and outperforming fiercely-competitive rivals."Sempre que um técnico desempregado me fala do problema da idade como barreira ao arranjar novo emprego, levanto sempre a hipótese-oportunidade de experimentar a ia da prestação de serviços de consultoria de marketing, de manutenção, de informática, de ... para a maioria é uma possibilidade que nunca tinham equacionado mas quando as empresas têm estas contas...
"The Internet has revolutionized countless industries, from finance to fashion. Now it’s starting to revolutionize the food industry. The biggest change has been the ability to order online.Anonimamente, muito mal distribuído, como reza a citação, o futuro já anda por aí.
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They want it to be authentic, they want to know how it was produced, and they want it to be a shared experience,
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The newest trend is cooking convenience delivered to your door. Blue Apron is one of the biggest players. You order a dish and Blue Apron delivers all the ingredients for a fresh meal with top-quality ingredients.
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Saffron Fix delivers to your doorstep all the ingredients, spices, bread and rice to cook an Indian meal at home.
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The exact model will evolve over time. And especially for the next few years, all these models will co-exist. But eventually much more food will be online.
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As companies like Blue Apron and Saffron Fix vie for customers, restaurants, will have to rethink the true value they are adding for their customers."
"If a strategy was simply a logical plan to reach a known objective, and many think of strategy of this way, communicating it would be easy. But the preceding chapters show strategizing as an ongoing process of selecting and dealing creatively with the situation’s uncertainties.A beleza da coisa está nesta incerteza, nesta variabilidade e idiossincrasia dos agentes. Se não fosse assim, o mundo podia ser tomado por robôs e arte não existiria.
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So different implementers know, say, and do different things. Second, those strategizing might try to finalize their work in all its details, treating the result as a comprehensive strategy that others should implement faithfully. As we know, strategists cannot do this without anticipating every possible possibility,"
"As petrolíferas argumentam que os supermercados vendem combustíveis 12 a 14 cêntimos mais baratos, os chamados "low cost", porque têm um modelo de negócio diferente, sem os custos de uma petrolífera (localização das bombas em zonas mais caras; desenvolvimento tecnológico; etc.)."Recordar o que escrevemos em Fevereiro de 2013 em "Mais uma asneira dos políticos":
"Os políticos que querem impor bombas low-cost são como os empresários, que refiro na apresentação, que julgam que low-cost é fazer mais desconto, que low-cost é ter menor margem. [Moi ici: E acrescento agora, ou que low-cost anda de braço dado com produto de qualidade inferior obrigatoriamente. Segundo a associação do sector petrolífero, o modelo de negócio é responsável por 8/9 cêntimos de abaixamento do preço e o produto não aditivado por 5/6 cêntimos ]
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Esta gente não percebe que por detrás do low-cost há um modelo de negócio diferente?"
"Custa a acreditar que o Salgado abriu buracos em todo o lado para salvar um grupo com dívida descontrolada que era um sorvedouro."Depois, de tarde, durante uma caminhada, ao ler "The Innovator's Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More than Good Ideas" de Michael Schrage encontro um conjunto de frases de Warren Buffett, entre elas:
"My most surprising discovery: the overwhelming importance in business of an unseen force that we might call “the institutional imperative.” … For example: (1) As if governed by Newton’s First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however, foolish, will quickly be supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation, or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated."
"the modern strategy process must be a much more forward-looking activity, because efficiency is no longer enough to deliver a decisive strategic advantage in many industries; instead, a so-called monopoly-based strategic advantage is needed."Isto, para um anónimo engenheiro da província que há anos, sozinho qual Quixote contra gigantes, proclama as virtudes da concorrência imperfeita e dos monopólios informais e a insuficiência do eficientismo na maioria dos contextos em que as PME operam, é um cumprimento!
"As contas emergem diretamente da análise de riscos do cenário macroeconómico, que acompanha o Orçamento do Estado de 2015 (OE/2015).Tudo o resto constante?! E as nossas exportações para a Rússia? E as nossas exportações para Angola? E um eventual regresso "forçado" de alguns milhares de portugueses a trabalhar em Angola?
Segundo esse modelo, economia e variáveis orçamentais reagem de determinada forma às oscilações em fatores exógenas, como preço do petróleo, taxa de juro de curto prazo e procura externa relevante.
Uma subida de 20% no custo do crude tende a agravar as condições da economia e das contas públicas. Inversamente, uma descida facilita a conjuntura nacional.
Ora, um preço do Brent na orla dos 60 dólares já se traduz numa descida de quase 40% no preço que foi tomado como hipótese de base para a construção do Orçamento: 96,7 dólares por barril.
Assumindo tudo o resto constante, uma descida do petróleo em 40% levaria a uma melhoria do crescimento da economia dos 1,5% projetados para 2,5% e o défice poderia melhorar duas décimas. Por cada 20% de descida no crude, o défice melhora 0,1 pontos percentuais."
"But the world has changed. More than half of consumers now research their retail purchases online, making purely in-store purchase decisions the shrinking minority. In many categories, e-commerce has dramatically lessened the need for physical stores. “Virtual space”—which we define as the floor space that would be required to generate the sales volume that online retail now accounts for, at a sales density equivalent to the industry average—is expanding at a staggering rate.O retalho a nível mundial, como o conhecemos, está a mudar. Lembram-se de como reagiu o comércio tradicional em Portugal à chegada dos centros comerciais?
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The effects of online migration in the retail industry are evident in every category. In the United States, apparel retailer Gap closed more than 250 stores in 2013; department-store chain Sears closed almost 200. Walmart’s new stores are about a third smaller than they were five years ago.
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In the United Kingdom, the number of vacant retail shops rose by 355 percent between 2008 and 2013,1 and in 2013 and 2014, three of the “big four” supermarkets took a combined write-down of £1.2 billion (approximately $2 billion) on the value of their undeveloped property. Perhaps the most affected category has been consumer electronics, where a 20 to 30 percent decline in physical retail space in the UK market between 2006 and 2012 was fully offset by the addition of an equivalent amount of virtual space."
"in the real world there were always at least two opposing or mutually exclusive ways of thinking about something"Porque foi mais atraente para os clientes comprar no centro comercial do que no comércio tradicional?
"But let’s be clear: the brick-and-mortar store is not dead; it just plays a different role now."Vou apenas referir os vectores de actuação propostos e, recomendo a leitura do sumo:
"Start by redefining the role of the store
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Tailor categories and formats accordingly
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Optimize the portfolio using forward-looking analytics
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Reinvent the in-store shopping experience"
"Apple owns only 18 percent of the app universe, but it banks almost 500 percent more than Google, pulling in a sweet $5.1 million in revenue each and every day. Meanwhile, Google owns 75 percent of all app downloads, but it only takes in $1.1 million per day."Não perder o excelente infográfico em "Comparing Apples and Googles: The App Store vs. Google Play"
"If you win the business at $120K, you’ve made $20K. If you win the business at $125K, a 4% price increase, you make $25K, a 25% improvement in profit. The particulars will depend on your business and the details of the proposal, but hopefully you get the idea. Small changes in price can have big impact on profit."Depois, algumas regras a considerar na feitura de um preço:
"1. Don’t price based on your cost....Trechos retirados de "4 Rules for Pricing Proposals"
2. Your price is limited by your perceived differential value— so price based on that....
Value is not something defined by your features. It is based on how you change the equation for customer. More specifically, it’s about how the customer perceives you change their situation, relative to the next best alternative. Your price is limited by your perceived differential value.
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3. Don’t lower your price to try to lower risk.
Many SMBs competing against big companies think that lower prices will help. This is true if the buyer thinks the big companies are inefficient and you can get the job done more cost-effectively. This is not true if the buyer is concerned about your ability to deliver. In this case, a lower price does nothing to help your perceived risk, and that’s if your lucky. In many cases, the lower price serves as a proxy for value and increases the perceived risk. Discounting from your initial offer certainly does not diminish the perceived risk.
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You want to be better, not cheaper.
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4. Give the buyer options"
"Debate is fine but practice is what mattersAo ler "The Innovator's Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More than Good Ideas" de Michael Schrage encontro além de "Acerca de Keynes (parte II)" mais isto:
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Thus no theory can embrace all the issues a practice engages.
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Judgment is always necessary to reasoned practice, a view theorizing tries to deny.
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strategists are always working with particulars and so have limited interest in theoretical statements
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Doubt is key - we must remain open to the possibility that things are not what they seem."
"Joseph Schumpeter. A brilliant rival to Keynes, he disagreed about the importance of ideas in making innovation happen. “Successful innovation…,” he wrote in 1928, “is a feat not of intellect but of will. Its difficulty consists in the resistance and uncertainties incident to doing what has not been done before. …”Ao ler "Sometimes Being Wrong Can Be More Valuable Than Being Right", encontro o mesmo padrão:
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For Schumpeter, commitment to overcoming resistance and managing uncertainty—not cultivation of intellectual prowess—determines innovation outcomes. Ideas aren’t irrelevant to Schumpeter, who was arguably as much an intellectual elitist as Keynes. But he recognized their inherent inferiority to action when it comes to the marketplace. Aspiring entrepreneurs shouldn’t invest too much in inferior goods. Real innovators—real leaders—know that actions speak louder than words and behave accordingly."
"While the Gödel and Turing showed that logic was no longer absolute or infallible, its flaws were manageable and the systems they created in its place made the information age possible. Out of the rubble of Aristotle’s logic, a new world was born.
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Entrepreneurs engaged in creative disruption keep the system humming along, so as long as we have innovation, there is no contradiction. We do have rent seeking, such as car dealers lobbying against Tesla, which is a problem, but not an insurmountable one.
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In the process, we learned something important. It’s not business per se that creates value, but innovation."
"nota-se uma confiança crescente dos executivos na capacidade competitiva das empresas locais.Eheheh começa a ser tão claro o sucesso da renovação empresarial que até as universidades já a reconhecem!
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as empresas portuguesas destacam como os dois principais objetivos estratégicos a melhoria da eficiência das operações e o fortalecimento dos seus processos de inovação.
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as estratégias de posicionamento de produto se baseiam em conseguir diferenciação baseada em atributos como a qualidade, o serviço e o fornecimento de soluções integradas. O posicionamento como produtor de baixo custo é essencialmente coisa do passado e fica ainda pendente o desafio de posicionar produto com recurso a marcas fortes, uma abordagem que só algumas empresas portuguesas conseguem desenvolver com sucesso nos mercados internacionais.
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Em síntese, embora a crise económico-financeira do país esteja ainda longe de estar resolvida, é percetível que a empresa portuguesa está a mudar e que a "era da troika" está a deixar um tecido empresarial mais competitivo e disposto a ganhar mercados em países que até há pouco tempo eram pouco considerados ou diretamente ignorados. Não é pouco."
"A decision validator – reducing the perceived risk of purchases by assuring buyers they’ve made a good decision.Trechos retirados de "What Retail Sales Associates Still Do Better than Websites"
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A choice navigator – improving customers’ decisions among many options.
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A needs identifier – helping customers uncover unfelt or latent needs.
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A community builder – connecting customers to each other and to the brand.
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An insights collector – gleaning customer insights for the company. As many B2B companies will attest, a sales force can be a valuable customer research tool."
"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." "