Business
Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.
Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.
-Jensen Huang
I do not want to be in the business of manipulating your split-second attention.
Nishant Jain • 249. Your Art should Reflect your Curiosity
Our company will grow as quickly as our customers decide it will grow.
Don’t fear the competition. Fear the customer.
Competition should not occupy the center of strategic thinking.
W. Chan Kim • Blue Ocean Strategy
The creators of blue oceans, surprisingly, didn’t use the competition as their benchmark.17 Instead, they followed a different strategic logic that we call value innovation. Value innovation is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy. We call it value innovation because instead of focusing on beating the competition, you focus on making the competit
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“Strategy is accepting that you are doing something better than the other and the other is doing something better than you. You have to pick your fight.”
- Axel Dumas, CEO of Hermes
Talk doesn't cook rice
With really good product-market fit, you can run your company like California and still be successful.