Quotes About Strategy

Tengo la firme convicción de que si tienes una idea muy clara de a dónde quieres ir, todo lo demás es mucho más fácil

NR: To think big but ensure payday comes every day: cash flow first, big payday second.

Por cada dólar de ingreso que generas, ¿puedes inducir un coste de cinco a diez dólares para los competidores? Si es así, invierte.

Aspirar a conseguir mil compradores es mucho más viable que un millón de seguidores.

Pricing low is shortsighted, because someone else is always willing to sacrifice more profit margin and drive you both bankrupt.

En una negociación gana quien tiene menos que perder».

Money in a business is like gas in your car. You need to pay attention so you don't end up on the side of the road. But your trip is not a tour of gas stations.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." —James Cameron "If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." —Colonel David Hackworth

The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn't require being unethical.

Es autor de tres superventas entre los que figura The Power of Broke.

One of the books he recommends for cultivating dealmaking ability is actually a children's book and a 10-minute read: Stone Soup. "It's a children's story that is the best MBA degree you can read.

When you're the first in a new category, promote the category. In essence, you have no competition. DEC told its prospects why they ought to buy a minicomputer, not a DEC minicomputer. In

It's not how well you play the game, it's deciding what game you want to play."—Kwame Appiah.

Cuando te obliguen a llegar a un acuerdo, pide más.

You limit angel investment funds to 10 to 15% or less of your liquid assets. I subscribe to the Nassim Taleb "barbell" school of investment, which I implement as 90% in conservative asset classes like cash-like equivalents and the remaining 10% in speculative investments that can capitalize on positive "black swans.

GOOD QUESTION TO ASK YOURSELF WHEN TACKLING INCUMBENT COMPANIES (OR IDEAS) "How is their bread buttered?" "What is it that they can't afford to say or think?

How to thrive in an unknowable future? Choose the plan with the most options. The best plan is the one that lets you change your plans.

Breaking your rules to co-invest with well-known investors is usually a bad idea, but following your rules when others reject a startup can work out extremely well.

Most of your startups will fail, so the successes need to make up for losses.

Sobre Richard Branson: «Lo primero que se plantea con cada negocio es: "¿Cuáles son los inconvenientes? ¿Y cómo me guardo de ellos?".

The Gary Halbert Letter (también conocido como The Boron Letters) y Ogilvy on Advertising.

First, you could define failing simply as having a losing outcome, like losing a hand. But one of the lessons poker teaches you is that this is an unproductive way to define failure because you can win a hand by making very poor decisions and lose a hand while making very good decisions.

Riesgos y beneficios asimétricos:

The Strategy of Conflict by Thomas C. Schelling The Science of Words by George A. Miller Retreat from Doomsday by John Mueller The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Donald Symons Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell Clear and Simple as the Truth by Francis Noël-Thomas and Mark Turner