"protectionism is the crack cocaine of economics. It provides a temporary high but is instantly addictive and leads to certain economic death."Proteccionismo e manipulação cambial de moeda, também.
Trecho retirado de "Speeches by Richard W. Fisher"
"protectionism is the crack cocaine of economics. It provides a temporary high but is instantly addictive and leads to certain economic death."Proteccionismo e manipulação cambial de moeda, também.
"Any strategy lives or dies on the basis of its customer value proposition.Em tempos trabalhei com uma entidade que fazia projectos de investigação com PME. Muita dessa investigação era convertida em produtos inovadores que tinham ... pouco sucesso.
...
Do we ultimately compete on the basis of our cost structure or another basis that increases our target customer’s willingness-to-pay?
.
In other words, will we sell it for more or make it for less — and allocate sales resources accordingly?
...
If you’re not clear about this, your sales efforts will run into problems.
...
Depending upon your value proposition, sales will face different buyers and selling tasks and require different support processes to deliver value."
"These firms have discovered that they need not serve all customers equally well - many customers are too costly to do business with and have little potential to become profitable, even in the long term. While companies may want to treat all customers with superior service, they find it is neither practical nor profitable to meet (and certainly not to exceed) all customers' expectations. Further - and probably more objectionable to quality zealots - in most cases it is desirable for a firm to alienate or even "fire" at least some of its customers.Trechos retirados de "The customer pyramaid: Creating and serving profitable customers" de Valarie A Zeithaml; Roland T Rust; Katharine N Lemon
While quality advocates may be offended by the notion of serving any customer in less than. the best possible way, in many situations both the company and its customers obtain better value."
"O secretário regional da Agricultura dos Açores declarou que pediu uma reunião com o comissário europeu que tem a mesma pasta para debater medidas a adotar para a região face ao desmantelamento das quotas leiteiras."Essa reunião não devia já ter tido lugar há 3 ou 4 anos?
"Na estratégia da vítima é sempre preciso ter nascido hoje, para que a investigação do seu passado não mostre que foi a vítima que se fez vítima. Os portugueses já foram enganados uma vez com a descida da taxa de juro, que os levou a pensar que eram ricos (e produtivos) como os alemães. Correm o risco de serem enganados segunda vez, agora que Mario Draghi lhes oferece o sonho de desvalorizar a moeda e de baixar a taxa de juro para valores que nenhum país europeu, com moeda própria e com barreiras aduaneiras, poderia conseguir. Mas é a vítima que se engana a si própria."Trecho retirado de "A ilusão do juro"
"in the United States and across Europe, vertically integrated value chains controlled by large companies are already being challenged by new consumer-orchestrated value ecosystems, which allow consumers to design, build, market, distribute, and trade goods and services among themselves, eliminating the need for intermediaries. This bottom-up approach to value creation is enabled by the horizontal (or peer-to-peer) networks and do-it-yourself (DIY) platforms that form the foundation of the “frugal” economy.Trechos retirados de "The rise of the frugal economy"
...
As it stands, nearly 50% of Europeans believe that, within a decade, cars will be consumed as a “shared” good, instead of privately owned, and 73% predict the rapid growth of car-sharing services.[Moi ici: Qual o impacte na quantidade produzida, no emprego do sector, na inflação, e nas estatísticas económicas?]
...
This shift in consumer attitudes extends far beyond transport. [Moi ici: Uma tendência que registamos aqui há vários anos com os marcadores "aluguer" e "partilha"] The peer-to-peer home-sharing service Airbnb now rents more room-nights annually than the entire Hilton hotel chain.
...
The global market for shared products and services is expected to grow dramatically, from $15 billion today to $335 billion by 2025, without requiring any major investment. The European Commission predicts that peer-to-peer sharing, now an income booster in a stagnant labor market, will evolve into a disruptive economic force.
...
the Internet economy is lowering the costs of research and development, design, and production of new goods and services in many sectors. [Moi ici: Se uns são beneficiados, outros são prejudicados e vão procurar defender o passado] Thanks to low-cost DIY hardware kits like the $25 Arduino or the $35 Raspberry Pi, people are increasingly building their own consumer devices. Moreover, customers can now design and manufacture industrial-caliber products by using shared high-tech workshops – so-called “fab labs” – equipped with CNC routers, laser cutters, and 3D printers.
.
Such changes are propelling the so-called “maker movement”: a legion of tinkerers who collectively can create products faster, better, and more cheaply than big companies can.[Moi ici: Não é só uma questão do custo, é também uma questão de paixão] Together, the maker movement and peer-to-peer sharing platforms are empowering once-passive customers to become active “prosumers,” thereby spawning a frugal economy that can create value in a more efficient, costeffective, socially inclusive, and environmentally sustainable way.
...
A self-organizing frugal economy could generate billions of dollars in value and create millions of jobs in the medium term. But, of course, there will be losers: the large Western companies whose “more for more” business models, backed by huge R&D budgets and closed organizational structures, are not designed to serve the needs of cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers seeking more – and better – for less."
"A ten-year study of pricing and revenues in over 4,000 European hotels revealed that regardless of the economic situation of the time period, hotels that positioned with ADRs above those of their direct competitors benefited from higher relative RevPAR even though they experienced lower comparative occupancies.Dá que pensar nas promoções mixirucas de hotéis de 5 estrelas que pagam portagens, ou de "descontos humilhantes".
.
The study, published by the Center for Hospitality Research (CHR), found that hotels that maintained average daily room rates (ADR) somewhat higher than the hotels in their competitive set recorded consistently higher revenue per available room (RevPAR), again compared with their competitor hotels.
...
maintaining a consistent relative price over time (as compared to having a fluctuating price) did not significantly affect revenue performance for these European hotels, controlling for hotel type and location.
...
"Hotels that offered prices lower than their competitive set did see stronger relative occupancy, as one might expect. However, higher occupancy percentages did not make up for the relatively lower ADR. That is the reason that hotels with relatively lower pricing also saw RevPAR lower than their competitors."" [Moi ici: Em sintonia com o Evangelho do Valor e os gráficos de Robert Dolan e Hermann Simon]
"There’s a simple pricing mistake which could sink your company. The “D” word. Discounts.Recordar os números do Evangelho do Valor para ter uma ideia do poder nefasto dos descontos.
...
Discounting is a slippery slope. However, if you never offer price discounts to anyone, you can resist all such requests by deferring to your company “policy.” You can also mitigate end-of-quarter price erosion by firmly communicating, early in the sales process, that your company is not subject to quarterly sales pressures.
.
Eliminating price reductions also denies mediocre salespeople their favorite crutch, while encouraging creative salespeople team to craft non-price incentives to spur purchases.
...
the importance of identifying, and communicating the full differentiated value to customers, rather than reflexively focusing on just price. The question isn’t which price is more or less, it’s which option provides the greatest economic value to the client and price is just one component of that conversation.”
"Wasted opportunities are a far more significant source of economic inefficiency than wasted resources. [Moi ici: Como não recordar a parábola dos talentos e, a diferença de comportamento entre os servos que apostaram no crescimento da riqueza e, o que teve medo de a perder]...If ‘cost-competitiveness’ or ‘labour-productivity’, or ‘competitive benchmarking’ or ‘operational excellence’ or ‘affordability’ is a defining feature of the frame, then the thinking is unlikely to yield profitable solutions....If we were required to carry a 20 per cent premium price on our products and services, how would we change our thinking? If we had to double our margins without cutting our costs, what strategy would we pursue? [Moi ici: Este é o mindset que tento instilar. Recordo projecto há mais de 10 anos que teve muito bons resultados, apesar do empresário ter uma queda para o controlo dos custos e o espremer as ineficiências, que lhe roubava tempo precioso. No ano passado, voltamos a almoçar e a primeira coisa que me disse foi "Tinha razão! Andava demasiado preocupado com os custos e a deixar de dar tempo e atenção às oportunidades de ouro que podemos criar"] If there were no recriminations for making mistakes in the bold pursuit of greater success, what investments would we choose? If we were forced to double our cost base over the next five years, what changes would we make?Simply by shifting the frame, we would get to different strategies, priorities and solutions. These more strategically astute questions play to our optimism, our imagination, and our responsibility. They get the creative juices flowing. And by countering the lazy option to cut costs, they are more likely, all other things being equal, to lead to enhanced performance."
"But the productivity of workers, especially the low-skilled, also depends on the skills of managers. The effectiveness and scope of programs to promote managerial skills in Portugal should therefore be reviewed."Recordar Abril de 2006:
"Aumentar a produtividade significa “produzir mais valor, com o mesmo, ou menos recursos”, para que isso aconteça é preciso um esforço mental dos gestores, não dos operários... só os gestores têm o poder e a autoridade para questionar e mudar as regras de funcionamento dos processos de uma empresa."Recordar Janeiro de 2007:
"Quando os gestores falam de produtividade, "xutam a bola" para o campo dos outros, por exemplo: "preço da energia, legislação laboral, abandono escolar, ...""Recordar Dezembro de 2009:
"A melhoria da produtividade pela via do denominador é bem vinda, mas deve ser tarefa dos técnicos, gestores intermédios e operários. Tarefa das pessoas que não podem mudar o sistema, e que devem concentrar-se a aperfeiçoar o universo em que trabalham.Trecho inicial retirado de "Portugal: Concluding Statement of the 2015 Article IV Mission"
.
A melhoria da produtividade pela via do numerador deve ser tarefa daqueles que têm o poder para mudar o sistema, a gestão de topo."
"In an era of ever increasing commoditization of products and services, companies are increasingly more dependent on their service personnel to create differentiating, commanding, premium experiences. When customers can hardly see the difference between competing products and services, the human services step in to create the desired differentiation. It is the people and the way they deliver the products and services that justify the premium price or the preference.[Moi ici: São as pessoas que criam a interacção na base da co-criação de valor]
...
In their zeal to prove their importance, the cost-cutters forgot to report to Wall Street about the ultimate price and who pays it. The answer is quite simple: the customer.
The companies that focused on cost cutting also diluted the value of their products and services.[Moi ici: Um autêntico veneno] The zeal to reduce costs led to accelerated commoditization of products. In response, customers became efficient as well, searching for the lowest prices and refusing to give their loyalty to a specific company. In the face of a bland product with no exciting features, the customer found no reason to pay a premium or to prefer one product over the other. Enter the price game.
...
Focusing on cost reduction and efficiency without investigating who is paying the real price is common, even at companies that declare their loyalty and commitment to customers."
- Então, quando é que vêm cá apresentar a vossa colecção.Claro que o tema da conversa mudou logo.
- Para a semana, ainda estamos a acabar umas coisas - foi a resposta.
- Potenciais clientes estão a ligar a perguntar pela vossa colecção? E vocês não a têm pronta?! Sacrilégio!!!Logo se combinou fazer um macro-processo com a lista de actividades a desenvolver para criar uma colecção. Depois, equacionou-se qual a melhor altura para lançar a colecção, conjugando-a com eventos internacionais que ditam o ritmo dos clientes na Europa, apesar da empresa não os frequentar.
Trechos retirados de "The fatal bias""The majority of companies envisage their path towards greater economic profitability as a journey from a place of relative inefficiency, waste and profligacy to one of greater discipline, frugality and competitiveness. This “drive for efficiency” will invariably contain such fashionable cost-cutting methods as out-sourcing, offshoring, service-sharing and re-engineering. It is the journey chosen by the majority of losers. They aim for El Dorado but, by the law of obliquity, they end up in the land of lost illusions....A minority of companies, by contrast, envisage their path to success very differently. They see their strategic journey as one of continuous discovery, moving from a place of “best practice” to one of “unique practice” [Moi ici: Recordar esta série] – from conventionality, convergence and commoditisation to daring, distinctiveness and differentiation. This quest for “corporate individuation” is driven by the conviction that markets reward uniqueness. This strategy has its risks, but it is the preferred path of most winners."
"You can’t control your competitor.
.
You can’t control your competitor’s pricing.
...
You can’t control whether or not your competitor lies.
...
You can’t keep your competitor from calling on your clients.
...
Your focus belongs on the things that you control, and your competitor isn’t something that you control."
"This is perhaps one of the most exciting and impactful trends that is going to disrupt organizations over the next few years.Segundo, a conjugação desta tendência com a nossa postura, como portugueses, face à incerteza:
.
Today it’s estimated (according to the Freelancers Union) that around 34% of the U.S. workforce is already freelancing to some degree and according to a study conducted by Intuit they predict that 40% of American workers will be freelancers by 2020.
...
I absolutely think that freelancers are taking over the world!"
"Different societies deal differently with the fact that the future can never be known, and there is a well-known index to measure the extent to which the members of a culture feel threatened by ambiguous or unknown situations. High uncertainty-avoidance cultures try to minimize the occurrence of unknown circumstances and proceed by implementing rules, laws, and regulations. In contrast, low uncertainty-avoidance cultures accept and feel comfortable in unstructured situations or volatile environments, try to have as few rules as possible, and tend to be more tolerant of change."
"A climate of excessive frugality focused relentlessly on the denominator of any calculation of returns (whether on assets, capital, equity or sales) ends up being an inwardly-focused culture that, in the words of Oscar Wilde, knows the cost of everything but the value of nothing.E, depois, o grande salto no pensamento do século XXI face a Metropolis e o século XX, que há dias resumi em "Em Mongo, o truque é aumentar o preço unitário,não o de reduzir o custo unitário" e que é a essência, o alicerce do nosso trabalho com as PME:
.
Treating suppliers as a cost to be cut rather than a relationship to be nurtured may be counterproductive in the long run."
Este é o truque que obriga a perceber em que é que se pode ser bom, que obriga a escolher clientes-alvo, que obriga a desenhar uma estratégia e que permite quebrar tectos de vidro."Beneath all of these assumptions lies a deeper misconception still – the idea that a policy of costcutting makes more commercial sense than one of purposeful and judicious cost-adding.[Moi ici: Isto é tão ... uau!!! Até que enfim que encontro preto no branco aquilo que tento pregar no meu trabalho, como João, uma voz que brada no deserto]...a strategy of increasing costs – making bolder, less risk-averse investments in the cost base of the business – is more likely to be successful than one of cutting costs. In other words, the bias, particularly in British manufacturing companies, of managing the denominator in preference to the numerator stands in need of a strong counter-bias in favour of bolder investments and higher costs....Winners tend to sit in the upper right-hand box, creating shareholder value by judiciously investing in higher unit costs and delivering superior value to customers. This strategy takes entrepreneurial courage, since it relies upon market insights that are unique to the firm – what I call “uncommon sense”.[Moi ici: A aposta na imperfeição do mercado a partir das idiossincrasias de uma empresa]...Most losers sit in the bottom left-hand box, perplexed that their quest for cost leadership through cost-cutting has only led to value destruction. This is the home of false economies: there are no short cuts to wealth creation....Overall, most of the costs of winners will be higher than most of the costs of losers."
"Igrejas, escolas, faculdades e centros médicos. Os muitos centros comerciais abandonados nos Estados Unidos da América estão a ganhar uma vida nova, com as respetivas infraestruturas a serem aproveitadas para servir outras funcionalidades. Contam-se, ao todo, mais de 200 shoppings que estão a sofrer facelifts e a mostrar que, afinal, servem para mais do que uma tarde bem passada nas compras."Há aqui qualquer coisa de evolução ao estilo da biologia. Falha uma tentativa, experimenta-se outra. E as alternativas não se definem por decreto, vão-se definindo espontaneamente e de forma não centralizada.
"In 1900 a quarter of the world’s people were European; by 2060 that figure could be just 6%, and a third of them will be over 65."Uma transformação impressionante.
"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.
.
"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'.
...
"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."
"
"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." "