Quotes
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
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Our company will grow as quickly as our customers decide it will grow.
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Don’t fear the competition. Fear the customer.
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Poverty isn’t simply the condition of not having enough money. It’s the condition of not having enough choice and being taken advantage of because of that.
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
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Competition should not occupy the center of strategic thinking.
W. Chan Kim • Blue Ocean Strategy
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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
... See moreW. Chan Kim • Blue Ocean Strategy
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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
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"What is important now is to realize that alcohol does pick you up, but only from how far it kicked you down, never up to where you were before you started drinking"
from This Naked Mind by Annie Grace
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"This is a key to all drug addiction—the drug creates the low and then deceives its victims into believing that, by ending the low, it is providing a high."
from "This Naked Mind: by Annie Grace
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