Diagrama que pode ser conjugado com estes dois títulos:
- Yellen levanta o pé do acelerador para não despistar os Estados Unidos
- Dijsselbloem quer fim gradual da política de estímulos do BCE
"There’s a dramatic and strangely under-editorialized reality taking shape in retail. One that seems to be eluding even some of the industry’s most sophisticated retailers and brands.
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It’s that until very recently the primary function, form and purpose of retail stores was to distribute products. Stores were the principle and in many cases the only means of availing distribution of products to a given market.
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Consequently, the entire retail industry framework has been based on product sales from the store to the consumer, and the revenue it generates.
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It’s all about the sale of product.
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In a post-Internet, post-mobile world of one click access, the distribution of products has all but ceased to be the issue. When one of something can be efficiently shipped to anyone, anywhere, the question of where the sale takes place is rapidly becoming moot. In other words, in the long-term, sales of product simply can’t be the primary strategic purpose or metric for the store.
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Some of the world’s largest retailers are struggling with this jarring reality already. “Stack it high and watch it fly” has abruptly turned into “stack it low and hope it goes” as big box stores scramble to lower inventories in the face of flat or declining sales. The knee-jerk reaction among some is to simply downsize and marginalize the role of the store. Others are adopting the buzzword of omni-channel – resigning to the idea that all channels now act as one – which I would argue risks oversimplifying what’s really happening.
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What used to be a distribution channel is becoming a media channel and likewise, media channels (television, magazines, radio, print advertising, social media etc.) are increasingly becoming the “store”. Virtual storefronts are cropping up in all forms of media.
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So increasingly, the primary role of the store will not be to sell product but rather to deliver the most powerful, and emotionally galvanizing experience possible, to create an essential level brand affinity, trust and allegiance – none of which necessarily results in immediate, or location-specific revenue recognition.
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Of course, many will. But unlike today, where retail is a product-first, experience-second business, the reverse will increasingly be true. Product sales will simply ride on the back of remarkable experiences. Consequently, sales in general will steadily become a less meaningful or accurate measure of true store contribution and productivity."
"The defining characteristic of post-industrial economic spaces is the increased, non-algorithmic, variety of behaviors that is available. It is not necessarily about common goals or even shared purposes any more."Isto é um resumo daquilo a que chamo Mongo. A explosão de variedade, o fim da uniformidade.
"A oligarquia, muito assustada durante o ajustamento, vive em lua de mel. Admira a solidez da coligação, sem perceber o desespero que a explica: a derrota de Costa e a perda de influência do PCP e do BE. Elogia o crescimento da economia em 2016, sem querer notar que é inferior ao de 2015, apesar dos juros baixos e do petróleo barato. Está embasbacada com o défice, sem querer saber da dívida.Trechos retirados de "A espiral da euforia"
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Peguemos no défice, por exemplo. É construído em negociação com a Comissão Europeia. Como notou Daniel Bessa há umas semanas, o nível dessa “construção” pode ser medido pelo facto de, em 2016, o défice ter sido de 3807 milhões de euros, mas a dívida ter aumentado em 9590 milhões. Ou seja: por decisão política, “3807 milhões contaram para o défice, e 5783 milhões não contaram”. Mas para a dívida, contou tudo. Por isso, cresceu 4,1%, mais do que a economia e mais do que o previsto pelo governo. O seu peso, que diminuíra de 2014 para 2015, voltou a agravar-se, para 130% do PIB. O défice mais pequeno da democracia esconde a maior dívida da democracia, [Moi ici: Calma Nuno!]
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Neste momento, em Portugal, só a dívida pública diz a verdade.
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Entretanto, o efeito do endividamento transparece em pequenos pormenores, como no sarcasmo com que o célebre Djisselbloem comentava ontem: “Esperava que Portugal pedisse a minha demissão, mas não o fez”. Pois não. Os leões de Lisboa são hamsters em Bruxelas. Porque em Bruxelas, valem o que vale a total dependência financeira de uma economia sem reformas."
"Cognac quaffers, reserve that bottle of Paradis Impérial now. Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, maker of the $3,000 tipple, warned on Tuesday of a potential shortage of cognac this year amid strong demand. The obvious response would be to raise prices — and the time to do so may soon be approaching."Nuno, há aqui trabalho por fazer.
"Smart contracts substitute boundaries. The architecture of a firm is a live social graph of networked interdependence and accountability."Este trecho que li ontem ficou-me na memória porque, de certa forma, relaciona-se com conversa que tive durante a manhã numa reunião em Gaia. Conversa em que discutíamos o quanto a tecnologia está a baixar as barreiras à entrada (a democratizar a produção) e a permitir arranjos empresariais novos e exóticos.
"No fundo trata-se de uma vertente de aplicação do conceito que Michael Hammer promoveu no seu livro "The agenda", publicado em 2001(?). Depois de aplicar a re-engenharia internamente (e ainda há muito por fazer a este nível nas empresas e sobretudo na Administração Pública - basta recordar que a aplicação de metodologias de gestão na Administração Pública norte-americana, levou ao corte do número de funcionários públicos nos Estados Unidos em cerca de 15-20% durante a administração Clinton), pode e deve-se replicar o conceito na relação com os clientes e com os fornecedores. Se deitarmos abaixo as paredes que nos separam dos clientes, porque é que o cliente há-de ter armazém de matéria-prima? Porque é que o cliente há-de ter dinheiro enterrado em inventário e instalações? Porque é que o cliente há-de ter pessoal que não gera valor, a pastorear inventário? Porque é que o fornecedor não entrega directamente à produção do cliente? Idêntico pensamento pode ser feito a montante, em relação aos fornecedores."Só que aqui a realidade está a seguir um percurso que não conseguia prever em 2007. Não é a reengenharia entre as entidades do passado (a empresa e os seus fornecedores e clientes) é a explosão da empresa clássica em entidades mais pequenas.
"Netflix uses one predictive algorithm worldwide, and it treats demographic data as almost irrelevant.
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“Geography, age, and gender? We put that in the garbage heap,” VP of product Todd Yellin said. Instead, viewers are grouped into “clusters” almost exclusively by common taste, and their Netflix homepages highlight the relatively small slice of content that matches their taste profile.
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Netflix (nflx) seems to have discovered (or built on) a powerful insight from sociology and psychology: That in general, the variation within any population group is much wider than the collective difference between any two groups.
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There’s a huge, crucial lesson here for other businesses—and perhaps a slightly scary reality for consumers. In the era of big data, consumer profiling can’t rely on broad categories like race or location. To target the customers who want what you’re offering, you have to get past the surface and see what really makes them tick."
"Sociedades que merecem sobreviver arranjarão uma resposta, mudarão comportamentos e regras e adaptar-se-ão a uma nova realidade. Sociedades que teimarem em não se adaptar irão parar ao baú de obsoletos e darão lugar a outras. Nada se perde nada se cria tudo se transforma."(daqui)E pur
"Temos o Governo constitucional menos reformista de que há memória e isso pagar-se-á caro." (daqui)E pur
"A crise terminal de um regime político inicia-se quando as entidades que integram esse sistema político perdem o seu poder de regeneração e conservam apenas o seu poder de reprodução das suas relações de dominação. O poder político reproduz-se, mas não se regenera, não tem vitalidade. O regime político conserva o poder, mas não identifica, nem neutraliza, os factores de crise que gerou no seu interior, no seu processo de decisão e no regular funcionamento das suas instituições. O regime pode continuar por um período indeterminado, mas o poder não é exercido, limita-se a repetir o que já fez e sem resultados que confirmem o que foi prometido nos programas dos partidos e nos fundamentos do regime." (daqui)
"the variance in business performance within a given industry is considerably higher than the variance in the average performance across industries. In other words, there are individual star performers in every industry, regardless of the performance level of an industry as a whole."
"Business models and competitive advantages are complex systems. This means that they consist of multiple elements – some of them tangible; some intangible – which interact with one another, meaning that it is their combination that makes it work. In many markets, digital will just add one new factor to the mix or replace one element, but not often all of them. This means that in many businesses, digital technology will complement and alter the incumbents’ existing resources and capabilities, but it certainly won’t always entirely replace them altogether. Therefore, when making strategy, the focus should be on identifying complements, rather than assuming complete substitution."Um trecho que faz pensar no impacte do online no retalho físico. Ontem numa empresa um empresário usou o termo: "lojas cansadas". Entretanto, outro empresário recordava que a Amazon está a entrar no retalho físico.
"Over the past many years I have worked with some powerful teams help clients with change. In every interaction, the clients that were the most successful had a clear picture of what change would look like and feel like. By creating what they wanted to become and mapping it out, could individuals, teams or whole organizations understand the path that they needed to take and the obstacles to overcome. Most importantly, they knew they had a guide to help them when they faltered or got off course."Recordar Ortega Y Gasset em "O meu presente não existe senão graças ao meu futuro"
"Espanha sozinha tem quase um milhão de hectares de vinha: são 941 mil hectares, o equivalente a 30% da área total da União Europeia. Castilla-La Mancha é a sua maior região, com 46,1% do total da vinha espanhola. O facto de ser o país com mais área dedicada à produção de uva para vinha não o impede de estar também no topo dos que dedicam mais espaço à produção de vinho de qualidade: quase 900 mil hectares, 95,6% do total da sua vinha, está afeta a esta produção mais exigente.Uma coisa são as estatísticas. Nunca esquecer como Aznar enganava os burocratas agrícolas de Bruxelas como fotografias aéreas manipuladas.
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Em Portugal, por exemplo, dos 198,6 mil hectares ocupados com vinha, 87,8% estão dedicados ao vinho de qualidade.
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Os dados do Eurostat mostram ainda que Portugal está entre os países com maior número de proprietários e vinhas mais pequenas."
"Sociedades que merecem sobreviver arranjarão uma resposta, mudarão comportamentos e regras e adaptar-se-ão a uma nova realidade. Sociedades que teimarem em não se adaptar irão parar ao baú de obsoletos e darão lugar a outras. Nada se perde nada se cria tudo se transforma."(daqui)
Esta imagem ilustra o governo da geringonça pic.twitter.com/GgHgouZi3a— Zé Nô (@zeno_1972) April 10, 2017
E "Prestações sociais absorveram 93% dos recursos da Segurança Social"
“The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind”Henry David Thoreau
"If the choice is either to enter a poorly performing industry, playing by the same rules as incumbent market leaders, or to stay out of the business entirely.Trecho retirado de "If You're in a Dogfight, Become a Cat!: Strategies for Long-Term Growth"
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But there is a third way, and that is to recognize that the industry as a whole may be missing an attractive opportunity to address an unserved market that can be tapped only by playing by a very different set of rules."
"So how can economic policymakers be more like gardeners in their approach? They should think of policy as an adapting portfolio of experiments, says Eric Beinhocker, a leading thinker in the field of evolutionary economics. We should mimic nature’s process of natural selection, which can be summed up as diversify-select-amplify: set up small-scale policy experiments to test out a variety of interventions, put a stop to the ones that don’t work and scale-up those that do.[Moi ici: Isto é tão o meu Verão de 2008]Não sei é se o mesmo jornal que publica isto percebe as implicações. Aquilo que resultava num dado contexto pode deixar de resultar quando o contexto muda: cuidado com os direitos adquiridos alicerçados em sociedades que também elas evoluem.
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“No one knows for sure what will work, so it is important to build a system that can evolve and adapt rapidly.”
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Realising that the economy is ever-evolving is an empowering insight. If complex systems evolve through their innovations and deviations, then this gives added importance to novel initiatives – from complementary currencies to open-source design – that are at the leading edge of new economic design."
"Não há escolhas certas ou erradas, nem soluções padrão para a totalidade da indústria do calçado portuguesa. Deve, isso sim, haver uma adequação entre o perfil da organização e a sua escolha estratégica.
É um erro definir estratégias em abstracto: é fundamental analisar de forma rigorosa a organização e os recursos disponíveis, escolher uma estratégica em conformidade e de forma racional, definir objectivos claros, monitorizar, controlar e perspectivar a evolução da organização a médio prazo.
O sucesso só poderá ser conseguido através de melhorias contínuas na execução das actividades em que a organização é ou poderá ser especialista, ou seja, na criação de valor pela excelência em actividades-chave.
Em contraponto com a ambição de tudo fazer ou de tentar alargar as suas actividades para outras áreas onde manifestamente não possui competências, pela ilusão de potenciais margens comerciais mais alargadas, as organizações poderão optar por especializar-se nas actividades industriais, na prestação de serviços ou na criação de marcas, com a opção complementar de iniciar actividades de retalho."
Pictures of Pope Tawadros II, who was giving #PalmSunday service at Saint Mark's Church in #Alexandria, #Egypt... pic.twitter.com/zwKkcTDBPZ— Raveen Aujmaya (@raveenaujmaya) April 9, 2017
This #PalmSunday, we pray for our #Coptic brothers & sisters in #Egypt who suffer under the heavy cross of persecution & terror. pic.twitter.com/4C0f0Dt6z2— Assisi Project (@_AssisiProject) April 9, 2017
"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." "