Business

Only dead fish go with the flow.

-David Ogilvy

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

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.

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

“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

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