A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G can be de-commoditized!— Tom Peters (@tom_peters) September 23, 2016
Uma verdade a não esquecer!
A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G can be de-commoditized!— Tom Peters (@tom_peters) September 23, 2016
"Em 2015, a exportação portuguesa do sector Fileira Casa realizou vendas de cerca de 170 milhões de euros para o Reino Unido, o que correspondeu a um crescimento de 20% relativamente a 2014, posicionando o mercado britânico na quarta posição num ‘ranking’ de 21 países clientes de Portugal, segundo a AICEP.Trecho retirado de "Presidente da AICEP defende que Portugal deve promover-se como país de design"
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No mesmo período, as exportações de mobiliário de Portugal para o Reino Unido cresceram cerca de 49%, a iluminação cerca de 28%, as utilidades domésticas 7,4%, a cerâmica cresceu 11,3% e por fim as exportações de têxteis-lar cresceram em 10,9%.
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A cutelaria foi o produto que maior crescimento registou neste setor, tendo as vendas para o Reino Unido disparado 106% entre 2014 e 2015."
"Any business whose value comes from serving as an intermediary between different groups of customers — and that is not harnessing and keeping pace with relevant technology — does, however, have a target on its back. If you are thinking about starting a matchmaker, the best place to look is at platform businesses that haven’t kept up.O sucesso não é para quem chega primeiro.
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The inertia of existing platforms creates opportunities for entrepreneurs to one-up the last generation of online platforms. Rapid technological change has compressed the time between when a new platform is established and when it faces a threat from an even newer platform."
Pensei logo nos artesãos, pensei logo nos que vendem algo com base na autenticidade. Pensei logo na tal artesã de Bragança... e pensei nas empresas sem dinheiro.“Make products for your customers, instead of trying to find customers for your products.” - Bernadette Jiwa— Ash Maurya (@ashmaurya) September 22, 2016
""Tentamos pegar nesse material e arranjar um processo de o produzir tridimensionalmente. Demorámos dois ou três anos a conseguir desenvolver isso. Para depois usar o gradil e conseguir conjugá-lo com outras cores, outras formas e levá-lo para a arquitectura de interiores e mobiliário", salientou o empresário.Se estivesse com o empresário lançava-lhe um desafio: como será um modelo de negócio baseado não no B2C, que passa pela abertura de lojas, mas antes baseado no B2B?
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A criação deste material, que tanto pode servir para fazer mesas, como prateleiras, como caixas de vinho, permitiu à empresa dar o passo seguinte: a abertura de uma loja, em Santa Maria da Feira, com uma marca própria."
“In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.” —Charles Revson,”Vender beleza, design, ...
e ainda ninguém se apercebeu que a CML se prepara para gastar entre 16 e 21 milhões nesta brincadeira da Websummit https://t.co/RSQcsIbbgd— Tiago Ivo Cruz (@tiagoivocruz) September 22, 2016
"Focusing on subsidizing some brewers, however, rather than reforming the entire process for all brewers, does more harm than good. It gives the appearance that policymakers are taking active steps to support an industry when the truth is that it’s only supporting certain members of the industry: those lucky (or shrewd) enough the win subsidies.
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You could help this entire industry without spending a dime. Instead of getting financially involved, get out of the way."
"Já sabemos que somos hoje um grande destino turístico, grandes produtores de sapatos, temos o melhor azeite do mundo, estamos a ficar com os melhores vinhos do mundo, somos ótimos no têxtil, mas temos de ter outro perfil."
"Houve 5002 empresas insolventes até agosto, mais 9% do que o ano passado. Criação de novas empresas cai 3,5%"E ler-se "Criação de empresas aumenta e encerramentos recuam":
"Já as insolvências estão também a recuar nos primeiros oito meses do ano (-22%)."A primeira relata os números do Observatório de Negócios da Ignios e a segunda os números da InformaDB.
"“A procura externa neste momento é um dos motores mais importantes do crescimento português"O mesmo que costuma dizer cobras e lagartos das exportações porque serão feitas à base de salários baixos.
"These examples both illustrate an aspect of smart strategy that companies often overlook: choosing a unique definition of their target customer to gain a competitive edge or minimize head-to-head competition.Identificar os clientes-alvo!
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Of course, sometimes strategy works in the other direction: You choose your value proposition and let customers self-select.
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Sooner or later, though, this approach to strategy will require sharper thinking about target customers
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The best strategies always include a sharp definition of the target customer. And the more unique it is, the better. For example, if your competitors define their target customers by where they are — say, in certain parts of the world or in particular parts of town — you could instead define them by one or more of the following:
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How they buy (perhaps through specific channels)
Who they are (their particular demographics and other innate characteristics)
When they buy (for example, on particular occasions)
What they buy (are they price buyers or service hounds?)
For whom they buy (themselves, friends, family, their company, or their customers).
The possibilities are infinite. They key is to distinguish your strategy, and give your business a competitive edge."
"O endividamento do sector não financeiro em Portugal situou-se em 710,8 mil milhões de euros no mês de Julho, o que representa um agravamento de 500 milhões de euros face ao mês anterior, revelou o Banco de Portugal.Trechos retirados de "Endividamento da economia portuguesa sobe 500 milhões em Julho"
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Em Junho o endividamento total da economia portuguesa (excepto sector financeiro) totalizou 710,31 mil milhões de euros, o que correspondia a 390,3% do PIB.
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Este agravamento em Julho resultou de um aumento do endividamento do sector público, que mais do que anulou a redução de dívida no sector privado não financeiro.
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No sector privado a descida do endividamento registou-se nas empresas e também nas famílias."
"Gray areas are situations with high uncertainty and serious human stakes. In these situations, you have to look hard at the economics, but you can’t stop there. You have to approach these problems as a manager and do the best analysis you can, including hard-headed financial analysis. In the end, however, you have to rely on your judgment and resolve these problems as a human being. In these cases, running the numbers and grasping what they tell you is important, but it isn’t enough. With gray area problems, you have to look hard at the economics and look past the economics.
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it is important, when you face a great area decision, to look beyond the economics of the situation.
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this important obligation — to earn strong returns — doesn’t override or replace your fundamental duties as a human being. And managers have to be careful that they don’t use their economic obligations as excuses for putting their good judgment aside, narrowing their focus, and ignoring their basic human duties."
"É nossa missão ser uma Ferramenta de Trabalho dos Arquitectos"Agora leio:
"Ainda bem que os arquitectos inventam, criam e sofisticam. Se recorressem a soluções simples ou padronizadas, os fornecedores seriam chineses"O interessante é que os arquitectos não inventam, co-inventam com empresas como a Jofebar.
"Um dia até as tatuadas vão ser avós!".Em Novembro de 2010 voltei ao tema em "Sinais dos tempos". Em Dezembro de 2011 sublinhámos "A 3ª idade que aí vem é muito diferente da 3ª idade que conhecemos em criança".
"Os retalhistas britânicos de vestuário de senhora estão a perder a oportunidade de servir as consumidoras mais velhas, que têm um maior rendimento disponível e uma «paixão pela moda», afirma a Mintel. Cerca de 44% das mulheres britânicas com 55 ou mais anos afirmam querer roupa mais na moda e sentem-se frustradas pela falta de escolha na high street – um valor superior à média de 32% de todas as mulheres. O estudo concluiu que 74% coloca a qualidade no topo das suas exigências em comparação com apenas 55% das mulheres entre os 16 e os 24 anos, e 75% considera mais importante encontrar um visual que se adeque à sua idade do que tentar parecer mais nova.BTW, recordar esta curiosidade do dia de Junho passado três verdades escritas por Tom Peters no Twitter:
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Uma questão essencial para o mercado da faixa etária acima dos 55 anos é o tamanho, com quase um quarto das mulheres que usam roupas no tamanho 18 ou acima a afirmar ser impossível encontrar moda nesse tamanho, enquanto 26% deste grupo etário gostaria de ver uma maior disponibilidade de roupas em tamanhos maiores. Alice Goody, analista de retalho da Mintel, afirma que os retalhistas precisam de fazer mais para atrair este mercado essencial. «Com as mulheres com mais de 55 anos a serem a demografia com crescimento mais rápido nos próximos cinco anos, servir estas mulheres é uma oportunidade para o mercado de vestuário de senhora, sobretudo tendo em conta o seu elevado rendimento disponível», explica. Além disso, estas consumidoras atentas à moda e à qualidade têm tendência para trabalhar até mais tarde e até durante a reforma, aumentando a necessidade de um guarda-roupa mais cuidado. «Contudo, uma questão essencial para a consumidora madura é a falta de vestuário com estilo para a sua idade, o que sugere que os retalhistas têm de trabalhar mais de perto com a sua cliente-alvo quando desenvolvem as suas gamas», aponta Alice Goody. «Vários novos retalhistas lançaram coleções para servir as clientes plus-size, muitas vezes ignoradas. A não ser que se adaptem, os retalhistas mainstream arriscam-se a perder para estes que estão a servir estes outrora segmentos de nicho de mercado», conclui."
"Oldies USA: (1) ALL the money. (2) Time to spend it. (3) Mortgage/tuition paid, hence "discretionary income.""E a sua empresa, olha para o mercado? Identifica segmentos interessantes underserved? Recordar que a melhor forma de subir na escala de valor é servir grupos underserved.
"na terceira breakout session do Círculo da Inovação, com o tema Criar Valor,"Depois:
"A definição de criar valorHá um tema, falam do tema mas ninguém arrisca afirmar o que é o que quer dizer o tema.
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Houve, no entanto, um conceito em que não estiveram de acordo: criação de valor.
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Mas afinal qual é a definição de criação de valor?
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também não tem a resposta que gera a concórdia para o que é criação de valor, mas não tem dúvidas de que tem de se aprender a criar valor em Portugal"
"the number one lesson I now preach to other retailers:Tantas PME fabris que ainda estão nesta fase da "location" e não passam disso. Apetece atirar-lhes isto "The Giant Zero".
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Your business is not your location. Make pitches outside to drive traffic inside.
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So your next step, dear retailer, is to brainstorm a list of outside groups and bring 'em in.
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Remember: your business is not your location. Your business uses your location."
"Starbucks has become an everyday stop for millions.Trechos retirados de "Why ‘basic’ is bad for Starbucks".
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But that ubiquity could now be its problem.
“Starbucks is now competing with chains like Dunkin’ Donuts and McDonald’s,” Business Insider proclaimed this week. “It has gotten, in a sense, too basic.”
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So what’s an overexposed company to do?
Starbucks in recent years has begun looking for ways to restore its luster.
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But can a brand that’s gone mainstream turn high-end again?
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“I’ll just say this: It’s much harder to go up-market than it is to do the opposite,”
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It’s a phenomenon Pam Danzinger calls “lux-flation”: Our ideas of what constitutes a premium product or experience are always evolving. “A brand like Starbucks starts at the top, and as it expands, it becomes the new normal,” said Danzinger, author of “Putting the Luxe Back in Luxury.” “Now it’s got to create that mystique once again.”
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“They’re putting the human touch back into the equation,” Danzinger said. “That’s one way to regain that luxury edge.”[Moi ici: O oposto da Grab & Go, meter interacção, fugir da automatização]
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But, he says, there have been some successes: In the early ’90s, Gucci was almost done for. [Moi ici: A propósito da Gucci, "De ajavardamento em ajavardamento] The Italian fashion company was in financial despair and its creative director was quoted as saying “no one would dream of wearing Gucci.” Then Tom Ford took over, and revived the brand, boosting sales and restoring the company to its previous glory.
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“There are examples, but it takes a lot of money and a lot of paring back,” Pedraza said. “And frankly, not every company has the courage to do that. Everything is so grow, grow, grow in today’s world. And before you know it, you have a mainstream brand that isn’t special anymore.”"[Moi ici: Julgo que há aqui qualquer coisa metafórica acerca do fim do capitalismo dos últimos 200 anos. Quando se chega ao fim da rua e não há mais terreno novo para explorar, e já não há possibilidade de crescer como dantes]
"I asked the hipster owner and his beard-nurturing hipster customer (a tattooist from across the road) how they described themselves. “Socialists,” they replied, quickly adding that they were not looking “to build empires”, just to “make a living”. They had both left safe jobs working for the state and local government respectively. This led me to wonder about suggestions that the hipster may represent some form of reincarnated frontiersman/woman or pioneer. In many ways, I think they do. Their styling certainly harks back to the mid-to-late 19th century; to the British colonialists and the western frontiers. These people want to earn a reasonable living, independently, by “crafting” and “creating”. They, like the original pioneers, are explorers and artists and they are capitalists.
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Unlike the colonising pioneer of the past, however, the hipster is postmodern, post-industrial, and post-Fordist."
"The firm is not restricted to offering value propositions ...Service marketing knowledge, concepts and models reflect the foundational premise that service providers are not restricted to offering value propositions; instead, the marketing context of service firms, unlike that for consumer goods, is characterised by interactivity, reciprocity and two-way influences in the service process. The value for the customer of the service being provided in this process thus depends on how the service provider and customer, through their behaviour and communication, influence each other. The provider clearly influences the service and its value for the customer. In addition, fellow customers who are simultaneously present in the process may exert impacts....providers, together with other parties, may need to act to ensure the realisation of proposed value, which is possible only during the interaction between the firm and the customer....Because the actors’ processes – the firm’s service production process and the customer’s consumption and value creation processes – merge into one collaborative, dialogical process during direct interactions, a platform for co-creation of value for both actors arises. The activities on this platform are interactive, mutual and reciprocal. Both parties can directly and actively influence each other’s processes. Therefore, the value-in-use created for the customer (or the firm or both actors) is influenced by actions that occur on the platform..As a clearer understanding of the nature of direct interactions shows, in services there are ample opportunities for the firm, as a service provider, to go beyond the goods logic-influenced view that the firm can only offer value propositions. The service provider can actively and directly influence customers’ perceptions of the firm and its service, as well as customers’ willingness to continue buying from it. Whatever value the service provider has originally promised, or proposed (using value proposition terminology), may be moderated and altered during the interaction process and thus change the customer’s experiences and determination of value-in-use. The higher the value-in-use, the greater the likelihood that the customer considers buying from the same firm the next time. If the co-creation process has an unfavourable impact on the customer’s experiences and value-in-use, the effect likely will be the opposite."
"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." "