"Pensado e fabricado por humanos, de carne e osso"No entanto, acho que não vai ser preciso chegar a tal, recordar o exemplo do Japão que já está noutra maré:
- "Um mesmo processo automatizado é demasiado rígido para Mongo" (Canon e Toyota)
"Pensado e fabricado por humanos, de carne e osso"No entanto, acho que não vai ser preciso chegar a tal, recordar o exemplo do Japão que já está noutra maré:
"there was an enormous, invisible cost to their adjacency moves: Each move distracted them from finding ways to grow the business they already had. As a result, they missed chances to grow their core businesses and made slow growth a self- fulfilling prophecy.Pelos vistos:
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Missing growth opportunities in your own backyard is one thing, but a second, even bigger, danger of pursuing growth through adjacencies is losing your coherence—that is, loosening the fit between the boundaries and scope of your company and what it’s distinctively good at."
"big-box retailers such as Walmart and Tesco. Lemming-like, many are pursuing a small-format adjacency strategy."Não são empresas de vão-de-escada mas acreditam que, no mundo dos átomos, não existem trade.-offs!!!
"The danger in trying to be distinctive at operating both small and large stores under one corporate roof is “averaging down”—that is, you may end up competent at both, but you won’t be the best at either. In other words, entering the small- store adjacency will very likely dilute a big- box retailer’s coherence."E a sua empresa, também se comporta como uma célula cancerosa? "Growth for the sake of growth?
"Se é difícil aceitar esta simples ilusão imagino como deve ser no "campo de batalha", convencer clientes, administradores, gerentes, etc... desta questão do valor.Esta semana trabalhei com uma empresa num projecto para lançamento de uma nova marca no mercado. A reunião começou com a referência a micro-marcas, marcas para nichos, que se vendem a 700 euros o par e, terminou, já à porta da empresa a falar da invasão literal que Felgueiras está a ter de representantes de importadores que querem fazer sapatos em Portugal a 12 euros a unidade à saída da fábrica.
Como é que se desbloqueia o Paint cerebral para comparar as cores do valor?
Tens de saber que existe um Paint cerebral.
Tens de saber que existe uma ferramenta "borracha".
Tens de querer apagar todos os quadrados menos aqueles que te interessam.
Tens de te sentar e encostar bem à cadeira quando aceitares que os quadrados são exactamente iguais."
""In the auto industry, Mercedes and BMW (Moi ici: Repare, a escola alemã) are integrated. They make almost everything they use. In contrast, Chrysler outsources everything. (Moi ici: Repare, a escola americana) When an innovation emerges, it’s very hard for Chrysler to respond to the opportunity, because they can do it only when a group of independently operated suppliers agrees on a common course of action. Also, most American companies look at profitability in terms of the return on capital invested, (Moi ici: Afirmação 1) which prioritizes short-term investing and outsourcing. Mercedes measures profitability by dollars per car. (Moi ici: Afirmação 2)
...Concordo com a afirmação 2 e desconfio da afirmação 3.
American executives say they are imprisoned by the way equity analysts measure profitability, and that discourages integration and long-term thinking. Measuring profitability in terms of the return on capital invested was the right thing to do from the 1930s to 1960s, when capital was scarce. But now capital is abundant, and it doesn’t make sense to measure profitability that way. If the cost of capital is zero, investments that don’t pay off for five years look the same as those that pay off sooner. So there’s less risk in investing for the long-term." (Moi ici: Afirmação 3)
"On the other side, we have a CFO, who has been given the mandate to cut down on cuts. This is fair enough in tough times, but the problem is that the CFO and his alliance do not really know much about innovation. They cut too deep. They lose their patience. No wonder. You get immediate results by cutting costs and – if successful – you have to wait 3-7 years to see the results of innovation. If you don’t know how innovation works, this becomes a no-brainer."Continua.
"A redução de custos é a principal prioridade dos empresários em 2013. Tudo em nome da melhoria da eficiência operacional das suas empresas. No 16º inquérito anual global a CEO, da responsabilidade da PricewaterhouseCoopers International, 70% dos inquiridos planeiam tomar iniciativas de redução de custos, sendo que 77% admite já o ter feito nos últimos 12 meses.Quem vê o mundo como uma ameaça ergue barricadas e prepara-se para defender o que tem, por isso, tal como os animais, deita fora tudo o que o atrapalhe e concentra-se nas funções vitais para a defesa...
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No que a oportunidades de negócio diz respeito, quase metade dos empresários diz-se apostado em crescer "dentro dos mercados existentes", e só 25% admite desenvolver novos produtos.
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Quase metade dos empresários encaram as alterações nos padrões de consumo como uma séria ameaça ao seu negócio. Não admira, por isso, que 82% dos inquiridos admita introduzir alterações nas suas estratégias de crescimento e retenção de clientes e que 51% classifique mesmo como primeira prioridade para os próximos 12 meses o aumento da sua base de clientes."
"Sucesso Futuro Exige Menos Volume e Reforço das Categorias Especiais"Menos volume: menos aposta na quantidade, menos aposta no preço mais baixo, menos submissão na cadeia da procura, menos "trabalhar para o granel".
"Uma estratégia "assente no volume e no preço baixo tem os dias contados"Claro que esta evolução vai prejudicar os que não investem na subida na escala de valor e estão à espera que as grandes quintas lhes comprem o vinho com benefício. Da próxima vez que ouvirem falar de protestos na Régua lembrem-se disso e da resposta dos Douro Boys:
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Numa previsão a 10 anos, Paul antecipa o Porto com menos volume, um peso menor dos vinhos correntes e um excelente desempenho das categorias especiais, (Moi ici: Quantas empresas na bolsa se podem dar ao luxo desta paciência estratégica? 10 anos são quantos CEOs? 10 anos são quantas estratégias superficiais?) O Porto "tem tudo para ganhar a vida como vinho de luxo: qualidade, prestígio, história e mercados". Mas este negócio "é uma maratona, não uma corrida de cem metros".
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Num ambiente adverso, as vendas subiram em volume 2,5% e 4% em valor."
"Mas, em 2013, o vinho do Porto abre um novo ciclo. A boa notícia é que após uma redução dramática do benefício, o excedente escoa-se e o equilíbrio regressa. O sector está em posição de desafiar a grande distribuição e repercutir, finalmente, o agravamento dos factores de produção."
"Don’t outsource mission-critical components"O artigo desenvolve-se como uma crítica ao outsorcing desmesurado na tal busca irracional pelo aumento da eficiência, pela extracção de valor, em vez de pela originação de valor. O artigo defende que muitos embarcaram na moda do offshoring sem perceber se iam ganhar alguma coisa com isso a nível contabilístico... tal como aprendi há anos com a Ventoro.
"The errors of offshoring are thus not isolated events. They are the result of the underlying philosophy of shareholder value, rather than the true purpose of every firm: create value for customers. (Moi ici: Por isso, é que marcas ainda consideradas grandes na mente dos consumidores, para mim já não passam de carcaças ocas, com carapaça luzídia e sedutora mas sem alma) The resurrection of American manufacturing will require more than simply bringing back production to America. Global manufacturing is at the cusp of a massive transformation as the new economics of energy and labor plays out and a set of new technologies—robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and nanotechnology—are advancing rapidly. Together these developments will spark a radical transformation of manufacturing around the world over the next decade. The winners in the rapidly changing world of manufacturing will be those firms that have mastered the agility needed to generate rapid and continuous customer-based innovation.E não sei se a tirania da bolsa vai ter paciência estratégica para salvar as empresas cotadas, não sei se as empresas grandes aprenderão a trabalhar como alfaiates, não sei se as empresas grandes saberão lidar com uma explosão de segmentos cada vez mais pequenos e irrequietos.
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Success in this new world of manufacturing will require a radically different kind of management from the hierarchical bureaucracy focused on shareholder value that is now prevalent. It will require a different goal (adding value for customers), a different role for managers (enabling self-organizing teams), a different way of coordinating work (dynamic linking), different values (continuous improvement and radical transparency) and different communications (horizontal conversations). Merely shifting the locus of production is not enough. Companies need systemic change—a new management paradigm."
"The United States is the home of marketing - that’s what all the textbooks say. The US is where Coca-Cola was invented, where TV commercials were first seen, and where modern detergents first promised whiter whites....
France, on the other hand, is the country of medieval farmhouses, of foie gras and of four hundred cheeses. Few would think of France as the home of cutting-edge marketing. But perhaps the world’s marketers ought to look more closely at France."
"And wonder why so many New Yorkers insist on drinking French mineral water.Pensar em francês é pensar o marketing para produtos únicos, de forma diferente da tradição do marketing para produtos da produção em massa, sem alma, sem pátria, um pouco o que por vezes parece um vómito industrial.
Or why the kind of Tokyo woman who would never buy a foreign food or electrical item always seems to carry a $2000 French handbag.
Or why hard-nosed Chinese businessmen celebrate deals with fine French wines and cognac.
French marketing is very different to American marketing – but it is often more effective. In the cut-throat world of the 21st Century, every marketer needs to understand it."
"‘This isn’t a brand’ say Anglo-Saxon marketers studying the label of a bottle of St. Emilion.Gosto sobretudo desta parte:
‘It’s a vineyard.’
They just don’t get it.
The best French brands are so authentic, they don’t look like brands.
And because they don’t look like brands, people prefer them and pay a premium for them."
"In America, a premium brand is one that costs ten percent more than an average brand. Luxury means a little gold on the label. No one likes to produce something that is way out of the reach of the ordinary American. There is something very ‘of the people and for the people’ about American marketing. And indeed the biggest successes of American marketing have been mass marketing:" (Moi ici: Talvez por isto não exista a tal massa crítica de consumidores exigentes e requintados que refiro em "Acerca da paciência estratégica")...
"A sense of populism has never hindered French marketers. Puritan roots and guilt don’t prevent them from behaving in unashamedly elitist ways and producing items that no ordinary person will ever be able to afford.Sim, talvez o marketing tradicional tenha de dar lugar a um outro tipo de marketing sobre clientes que procuram não a massa, mas a individualidade, mas a diferenciação.
A perfume for $1,000?
Voilà Madame!
A Hermès Birkin bag for $15,000?
No problem.
It doesn’t mix well with egalité and fraternité. But it does lead to high margin, sustainable brands. And rich, rich brand values. And hugely committed consumers."
"French marketers are not so focussed on rational promises. They are more interested in the higher margins available by selling dreams."
"At GenMet, the starting pay is $10 an hour. Those with an associate degree can make $15, which can rise to $18 an hour after several years of good performance. From what I understand, a new shift manager at a nearby McDonald’s can earn around $14 an hour.Por que é que os salários são tão baixos?
The secret behind this skills gap is that it’s not a skills gap at all. I spoke to several other factory managers who also confessed that they had a hard time recruiting in-demand workers for $10-an-hour jobs. “It’s hard not to break out laughing,” says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, referring to manufacturers complaining about the shortage of skilled workers. “If there’s a skill shortage, there has to be rises in wages,” he says. “It’s basic economics.”"
"advanced manufacturing is really complicated. Running these machines requires a basic understanding of metallurgy, physics, chemistry, pneumatics, electrical wiring and computer code. It also requires a worker with the ability to figure out what’s going on when the machine isn’t working properly."Conheço várias empresas portuguesas que produzem máquinas na fronteira tecnológica e que resolvem bem este assunto, conciliam o know-how da "gente da ferrugem" com o "know-how" de jovens engenheiros formados no mundo digital. A princípio não é fácil, ambas as partes desconfiam do conhecimento da outra, mas quando se dá o click...
"Pensar y planificar en el largo plazo, es el terreno donde con mayor soltura se mueven las empresas familiares, para quienes la principal unidad de tiempo es una generación. Gracias a un fuerte compromiso con la continuidad y la libertad de la presión que pueden ejercer los accionistas ajenos a la familia propietaria, las empresas familiares disponen de la paciencia; una ventaja competitiva muy valiosa para los tiempos que corren."Sim, quando se tem uma estratégia a paciência é uma vantagem poderosa. Paciência para seguir pelo caminho menos percorrido, pelo caminho que demora mais tempo a produzir resultados mas que, quando chegam, são mais saborosos.
"En el período que va desde los años ochenta, hasta el año 2005, solamente una tercera parte de las 100 mayores empresas alemanas eran familiares. Este gran avance en el ranking en parte se debe a las características intrínsecas de este tipo de empresas que a parte de la visión a largo plazo, también se caracterizan por una mayor prudencia a la hora de endeudarse y sobre todo porque fomentan el sentimiento de solidaridad entre sus empleados."O sr. Dr. Tavares é um avatar de um modelo mental sobre a economia que está obsoleto, graças a Deus, e que as PMEs portuguesas que exportam estão a aproveitar muito bem.
"A Fly London, a marca portuguesa de calçado de maior projecção internacional, estima vender este ano pelo menos 100 mil pares de sapatos nos Estados Unidos (EUA). O volume previsto representa quase 15% da produção anual do grupo, que, no ano passado, atingiu 700 mil pares. No ano passado, as vendas para os EUA aumentaram 60% em relação a 2010."Como se consegue?
"Depois de "mais de cinco anos a trabalhar o mercado norte-americano sem vender um par, finalmente esse esforço está a dar resultados", realça Fortunato Frederico, presidente da Kyaia, grupo que detém a marca Fly London e é, actualmente, o maior do sector português do calçado."5 anos sem vender um par ... conseguem sentir o "abençoado cheiro a bosta"?
"O gestor reconhece que o mercado norte-americano tem "das mulheres mais difíceis que conheci""Não há acasos, muito trabalho de sapa, invisível,
"Para impulsionar as vendas aos retalhistas, a Fly London já agendou para este ano presença em 13 feiras sectoriais nos EUA. Os eventos de Nova Iorque e Las Vegas servirão para a marca nacional apresentar-se ao público norte-americano. No entanto, a dimensão daquele país e o seu elevado potencial para a marca levaram o grupo a apostar também na participação em ‘shows' regionais em Atlanta, São Francisco, Chicago, entre outras cidades."E querem os governos fazer crer que o aumento das exportações se deve ao esforço dos governos...
"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." "