"It pays to have big dreams but low overhead."Muitas vezes recomendo algo parecido com isto.
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Trecho retirado de "Errors in scale"
"It pays to have big dreams but low overhead."Muitas vezes recomendo algo parecido com isto.
"what your pricing strategy says about your offerings.
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I believe that pricing is a part of positioning and branding that is often overlooked. How you think about pricing may depend on whether or not you’re introducing a new product or service or just rethinking how an existing product or service is brought to market.
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Penetration pricing
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Premium pricing
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Economy pricing
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Bundled pricing
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Bracket pricing
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As you can see, there’s a lot more to the underlying messages that comes from how you set your prices."
"What are some basic rules you’ve learned along the way?
First, you have to deliver results. You have to do what you say you are going to do to build credibility within your organization, with your customers, and with your partners. Second, you need the right people in the right jobs at the right time with the right attitude. That sounds easy, but it’s very hard. At eBay, someone who was perfect when it was a $40 million company was not quite so perfect when it grew to $4 billion. [Moi ici: Outro tecto de vidro. Pessoas são pessoas. É muito difícil a um empresário de uma PME este distanciamento, afastar alguém que ajudou a criar a empresa, alguém que sofreu pela empresa quando ela era mais pequena mas que já não dá conta do recado agora que ela cresceu] And attitude makes a huge difference: You want enthusiasm, can do, glass half full. It’s taken me a couple of years to get the team dynamic right at Hewlett-Packard.
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What do you think a CEO really needs to focus on?
First, you need the right strategy. Less than perfect execution against the right strategy will probably work. A 100% execution against the wrong strategy won’t. The next thing is getting the right people.[Moi ici: Olha, vou usar este trecho em futuros projectos. Ás vezes, sinto que a estratégia é a correcta mas que algumas chefias ou não são as certas, ou não estão motivadas. Por vezes, parece que algumas chefias só estão preocupadas com obedecer a ordens e não estão preparados para serem responsáveis por agirem de moto próprio] And at scale, you have no choice but to instrument the business. It was different at eBay. I was the 30th employee, and by the end I had an instinct—I could almost feel what was wrong with the business. I could have a couple of conversations, look at some high-level numbers, and I’d know. But at HP you have to have a plan, and you have to measure that plan. You don’t get what you expect; you get what you inspect. At scale, you can’t just feel it; you have to have the metrics. We monitor everything, so the minute something goes off track, we know. [Moi ici: Outro trecho a usar em futuros projectos. Quantas vezes encontro chefias que não querem usar, não querem ligar a números, a indicadores]
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How can you increase the odds that you’re on the right strategic path?
I learned how to do strategy for nine years at Bain, and it has stood me in good stead, because there’s a formula for it. It’s all about who your customers are, who your competitors are, what cost structure you need, and what things you are not going to do. That is the most difficult decision for companies, because we all have eyes that are bigger than our stomachs."[Moi ici: Foco, foco, foco]
"More than half of millennials believe they will start their own business, and the majority of them believe that businesses must be driven by more than profit — seventy-seven percent of Millennials chose their place of work based on their employers’ purpose. Given a choice, this generation does not want to work at the corporations created by their forebears. This, of course, is an existential threat to the world’s great corporations."Um tempo em que o paradigma do trabalho no século XX esteja morto e enterrado, um tempo em que a massa dê lugar ao artista.
"There are also risks to the fiscal outlook, largely emerging from optimistic growth assumptions and the government’s limited ability to pursue a tight fiscal strategy in the medium term, given its weak mandate.Textos da Lusa são "encomendas políticas"?
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However, the ratings could come under downward pressure if there is a weakening in the political commitment to sustainable economic policies or if growth markedly underperforms, leading to a deterioration in public debt dynamics. Specifically, a reversal of structural reforms that threaten a return of large macroeconomic imbalances or policy inaction to deal with fiscal pressures would indicate weak political commitment and raise concerns about the durability of the fiscal adjustment.
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Moreover, the government’s reliance on support from left-wing parties could impede the adoption of additional fiscal measures, if needed, thus increasing the risk of slippage."
DBRS unplugged:pic.twitter.com/DD9EOUu0ba— icy (@icyView) April 29, 2016
"I had underestimated the benefit of focus, because you can’t put it in a cash flow model. It’s a remarkable accelerant.[Moi ici: Recordar a atenção que sempre demos ao foco neste espaço. Foco é terrível, obriga a fazer renúncias... pois, pobre ou com saúde]
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So we set out on a turnaround journey, which I predicted would take five years. I said, “What are the core values of this company? Let’s identify what it does really well and do more of that as the anchor for the turnaround. [Moi ici: Mesmo uma multinacional, quando está à rasca, faz o que propomos às PME, começar pelo ADN, começar por onde podem fazer a diferença, começar pelo que pode ser um ponto forte. Mais, até esta multinacional seguiu o que recomendo às PME que façam e não seguiu a treta dos livros] Then let’s make a to-do list of the things to be fixed.” So we went back to our core founding principles, and the company responded.
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But I didn’t spend a lot of time worrying about how we got here. I was just determined to turn the ship around. The first step was to decide whether to spin off the PC business. The second was to get our cost structure in line with the revenue trajectory, because in 2012 revenues declined by more than 5%. When you have declining revenues, you have to manage your cost structure very aggressively in order to expand margins and save for investment in what’s needed to fix the company. [Moi ici: Grego clássico, ou aramaico pré-cristão para político ou funcionário público. Bê-á.bá para qualquer empresário com dois dedos de testa] Next we had to reignite the innovation engine.
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“Authentic leadership” is a term that’s used a lot. What does it mean to you?
You have to be exactly who you are, because ultimately people will see through you if you’re not leading in an authentic way. For me, it’s about very simple, straightforward communication. Our industry tends to do a lot of technospeak, to make things more complicated than they need to be. With a company this size, you have to speak clearly and lay out the objectives so that your teams can explain what’s happening to customers and partners and one another."[Moi ici: Como não pensar na situação política actual e na treta fragilista]
"We believe the greatest challenge to companies today is not keeping up with their competitors, but with their own customers.Agora que conseguiu materializar o que está em causa com o exemplo dos taxistas, talvez possa reflectir mais profunda e abstractamente sobre o mais difícil, sobre a sua empresa... em que medida é que ela não está a acompanhar a pedalada dos seus clientes?
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One reason is that individuals are transforming to digital faster than organizations. Think for a moment about people as tiny enterprises. They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Have you reinvented your core processes to the same degree?.
Customers’ expectations are also more liquid and no longer based on industry boundaries. Customers – whether consumers or business buyers – don’t compare your customer service to that of your competitors, but to the best customer service they receive from anywhere."
"Growth was comfortably ahead of expectations in what one analyst called a "major upward surprise" after strong data from France and Spain earlier this morning showed their economies surging back into life.Por tudo isto, este título "Marcelo teme efeitos económicos externos" só revela um ignorante fragilista sempre pronto a culpar os outros pelos nossos problemas:
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France's economy grew by 0.5 per cent between January and March - nearly twice as fast as the expectations of just 0.3 per cent."
"O Presidente da República, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, considerou hoje que a situação económica internacional pode ter efeitos negativos em Portugal, mas disse não ver qualquer risco de instabilidade política que leve a eleições antecipadas."Balelas!
"As exportações portuguesas de vestuário continuam em crescimento, com os números para os dois primeiros meses do ano a darem conta de uma subida equivalente a 35,4 milhões de euros, em comparação com o período homólogo de 2015.Trechos retirados de "Exportações de vestuário crescem 7,2%"
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Espanha continua a liderar a lista de principais mercados do vestuário “made in” Portugal, tendo registado um crescimento de 15,1%, para 218,5 milhões de euros, mas as empresas portuguesas registaram igualmente mais vendas para o Reino Unido (+4,7%, equivalente a mais 2,2 milhões de euros, para 48,5 milhões de euros), para os Países Baixos (+ 10% para 25,3 milhões de euros) e Itália (+ 11,9% para 19,6 milhões de euros).
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Fora da UE, os EUA ganham peso. Nos meses de janeiro e fevereiro, a procura americana foi superior em 4,6% face ao mesmo período de 2015, num valor total de 12,2 milhões de euros. Destaque ainda para a Tunísia, Hong Kong, China e Arábia Saudita que aumentaram as suas compras."
"Haverá instabilidade, haverá perturbação, haverá turbulência, virão problemas. Por isso, o objectivo é sobreviver aos problemas que virão. Quem acredita na estabilidade, os fragilistas, andam na corda bamba, esticam a corda, colocam-se numa posição de fragilidade. Quando chega a turbulência, e ela acaba sempre por chegar, não há capacidade de resistir, de aguentar..."Depois, recuar a Janeiro de 2016 com "O não-fragilista prepara-se para os problemas":
"Most problems are like that. When we prepare for them and get used to them, they're not problems anymore. They're merely the way it is.Por fim, ler de 27 de Abril de 2016 "Pedro Marques: “A economia europeia não está a facilitar-nos a vida”"
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Os fragilistas partem do princípio que o pior não vai acontecer e, por isso, desenham planos que acabam por ser irrealistas ou pouco resilientes. Depois, quando as coisas acontecem, chega a hora de culpar os outros pelos problemas que não souberam prever, não quiseram prever, ou que ajudaram a criar."
"Expect the unexpected, and stash some cash."
"In 2015, 62 manufacturers sold industrial-grade AM systems (valued at more than $5,000), compared to 49 in 2014, and twice as many as the 31 companies that sold industrial systems in 2011.Trechos retirados de "Wohlers Report 2016"
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- 71.1 percent of manufacturers have currently adopted 3D Printing.
- 52 percent of manufacturers expect 3D Printing will be used for high-volume production in the next 3-5 years.
- 22 percent of manufacturers predict 3D Printing will have a disruptive effect on supply chains."
"Sometimes, "no, I'm sorry, we can't do that," is a feature."Ah! E não esquecer esta "Curiosidade do dia"
"O que a verdade efectiva das coisas mostra hoje em Portugal é uma extraordinária acumulação de fracassos e de impossibilidades, que só podem ter acontecido porque as entidades de racionalização, aquelas que têm a responsabilidade de distinguir o possível do impossível, violaram os seus deveres (de regulação) e não cumpriram as suas obrigações (de só prometerem o que sabiam poder cumprir). Preferiram a demagogia à democracia e serviram-se do dinheiro dos outros (impostos para o Estado e depósitos para os bancos) para imaginarem uma riqueza que nunca existiu."Trecho retirado de "Verdade e realidade"
"What is typically thought of as the peer-to-peer or sharing economy — think Uber or Airbnb — could some day become so peer-to-peer that drivers and riders or hosts and guests connect to each other directly through their smart phones and ditch those companies as middlemen.Isto é só o começo, a verdadeira economia da partilha ainda nem começou.
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“We will see an evolution from social to peer-to-peer,” says Molina, comparing Fermat to the file-sharing service BitTorrent, because it is a device-to-device-based network"
""As PME portuguesas continuarão a mostrar o pior comportamento entre os mercados estudados neste relatório. A mais baixa taxa de sobrevivência na União Europeia confirma-o: só 25% das micro-empresas registadas em 2008 sobreviveram até 2012, menos de metade da taxa verificada na Bélgica", pode ler-se."Comecei por recordar logo a referência americana, fora de um período de crise profunda o padrão é:
"Students, teachers, principal, school staff, administrators, parents and family, community members"Os pressupostos dos autores fazem sentido:
"Diversity sensitivity. The vendor must be mindful that there may exist a great deal of diversity among an ecosystem’s stakeholders. ... As a result, vendors
must cultivate diversity sensitivity, defined as the skill of being mindful that different stakeholders within an ecosystem may be endowed with different levels of capabilities and resources.
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Proposition 1: The greater the level of diversity sensitivity by vendors, the more successful the solution development and implementation process.
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vendors must employ multipoint probing in order to understand how the diversity discussed above may facilitate or inhibit their operational integration and how to best address that diversity in order to remain deeply intertwined with the customer.
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Proposition 2: The greater the level of multipoint probing by vendors, the more successful the solution development and implementation process.
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We define orchestration [Moi ici: Já desde 2010 uso essa frase, orquestrar um ecossistema] as the skill to align vendor activities and work processeswith stakeholders and/or other vendors so the solution vendor’s offer works well with the other solutions currently being used by the customer—be it from the same vendor or a different vendor.
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Proposition 3: The greater the level of orchestration by vendors, the more successful the solution development and implementation process.
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stability preservation, defined as the vendor’s skill to be mindful of, and actively contribute to, the preservation of an ecosystem’s long-term permanence.
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successful solutions are those which not only help the customer achieve its immediate objectives but also help preserve ecosystem stability in the long run. In other words, they want their vendors to be mindful about and make active efforts to keep long-term customer stability in mind while developing and implementing their solutions.
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Proposition 4: The greater the level of stability preservation by vendors, the greater the success of the solution development and implementation process.
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our findings concur with service-dominant logic submissions that value should shift its conceptual emphasis to value-in-use (or value-in-context) as opposed to value-in-exchange. Value-in-use is defined as a customer’s [Moi ici; Podem achar picuinhisse mas não é, diz-me a experiência, já não é o cliente mas o ecossistema, a maximização do valor percepcionado pelos membros do ecossistema] outcome, purpose, or objective achieved through service and indicates value creation cannot mean anything other than the beneficiary’s perception of the value."
"Managers commonly argue that market share is a useful intermediate measure — in effect, a leading indicator of future success. In some markets, market share probably does help increase future profits, but this is not always the case: General Motors Co. was the world’s biggest carmaker before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection in June 2009. Therefore, it is critical to understand the expected relationship between market share and profitability in your specific market.O tema deste artigo joga bem com este texto de Seth Godin "Numbers (and the magic of measuring the right thing)":
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In some markets, bigger can be better; the most obvious examples are markets with economies of scale. Companies in such markets can reduce their cost per unit by selling more — thus increasing overall profits. If you think you are in such a market, you should confirm that the economies of scale you think exist actually do. Economies of scale do not automatically apply to all markets."
"When you measure the wrong thing, you get the wrong thing. Perhaps you can be precise in your measurement, but precision is not significance.E na sua empresa, o que é que se mede? Qual o racional por trás dessas escolhas? Que sinais internos são enviados por essas escolhas?
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On the other hand, when you are able to expose your work and your process to the right thing, to the metric that actually matters, good things happen.
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We need to spend more time figuring out what to keep track of, and less time actually obsessing over the numbers that we are already measuring."
"E ainda esta semana, o Bloco de Esquerda avançou com um projecto de resolução no Parlamento para que seja abandonada a exigência de apresentação de garantias bancárias, fruto de várias reclamações de produtores (neste caso de cogumelos) que se sentem “discriminados e prejudicados relativamente a agricultores que optaram por outras actividades”."Há aqui algo de muito estranho ... que raio de empreendedores são estes que não percebem que diferentes projectos podem ter diferentes níveis de risco? Parece brincadeira.
"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." "