“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a
wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your
mind.” —Buddha
wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your
mind.” —Buddha
November 2011
133 posts
“Press on.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not: nothing is more common than unrewarded talent.
Education alone will not: the world is full of educated failures.
Persistence alone is omnipotent.” —Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not: nothing is more common than unrewarded talent.
Education alone will not: the world is full of educated failures.
Persistence alone is omnipotent.” —Calvin Coolidge
“At Nike we probably didn’t win many Wall Street friends in the early years because we didn’t pay as much attention to them as other companies did. Instead, we spent most of our time looking at consumers and the world they, not the analysts, lived in. Interestingly, what has proved to be reckless and unsustainable are many Old Brand World marketing and brand-development practices.”
—A New Brand World ( Scott Bedbury)
“one of the most important trends to emerge from developing countries in the past decade. People in India and China are extremely price-sensitive, but they still want fridges and televisions and cars. To serve them, companies have to redesign products from scratch. They have to ask, what does this product need to do?”
—Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism by Robert Guest
“there is money to be made from serving the poor, because there are so many of them. Prahalad called this “the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid”
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Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism by Robert Guest
“The firm that does the fastest, most accurate job gets 50 percent of the work; the others get 30 percent or 20 percent. This allocation is reassessed frequently, so if the second-best firm starts doing better, it picks up some work from the leading firm. In other words, each contractor is constantly competing against the other two. That keeps everyone sharp.”
—Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism by Robert Guest
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for the Lippo Group, “networking is not just supportive of the business strategy; networking is the business strategy.”
“Without a network, we can do nothing,”
” —Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism by Robert
“He noticed that the face value of the local rial coins was less than the value of their silver content. So he put out word in the souks that he would buy every coin he could get. He gathered the coins, melted them down and sold the silver bullion. His operation was shut down after three months—the authorities were annoyed to see that all the coins were disappearing from circulation. But he made a mint, so to speak.”
—Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism by Robert Guest
“Consider the difference between China—that is, the People’s Republic—and the Chinese people. The former is a state that occupies 3.7 million square miles. The latter is a tribe that stretches around the globe. Most of its members live in the People’s Republic, but at least 60 million do not.”
—Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism by Robert Guest
“…it is often more accurate to think of the world as a complex and overlapping web of tribal networks based on ethnic and religious affiliations.”
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Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism by Robert Guest
“culture shock makes you think.”
—Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism by Robert Guest
“a modern consumer is helpless because he cannot be self-sufficient.”
—Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism by Robert Guest
“Japanese people do not like breadcrusts, Japanese bakers throw them away. So if you walk into a bakery and ask for a bag of pan no mimi, the man behind the counter will let you have it for nothing.”
—Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism by Robert Guest
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”
—Jack Kerouac (via monekomimi)
