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Blue ocean strategy is about creating demand instead of fighting for it.
Work on your business, not in your business.
Sustained success comes from a relentless focus on what you can do best.
Not all innovations are disruptive; some simply enhance existing products.
Focus on the big picture, not the numbers.
You don’t have to spend a lot of money to start a business.
From The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
The technician in you wants to do the work. The entrepreneur in you wants to create the business.
Enduring companies are often led by visionary leaders who inspire and motivate.
Companies that focus on sustaining innovations often overlook disruptive innovations.
The key to success is understanding the importance of network effects.
From The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
Business models will need to adapt to the capabilities of prediction machines.
From Prediction Machines by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb
AI's ability to enhance predictions can lead to better business outcomes.
From Prediction Machines by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb
The most successful organizations are those that dare to dream big.
In business, the only thing that matters is what you do, not what you say.
Visionary companies are not afraid to take risks and to innovate.
Good is the enemy of great.
Successful innovations often come from understanding the needs of customers.
The container revolutionized trade, allowing businesses to expand their reach beyond local markets.
From The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller by Marc Levinson
The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.
Profitability doesn’t have to come from relentless hustle; it can come from thoughtful design.
From Company of One by Paul Jarvis
Understanding your users' needs is crucial for long-term success.
From The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
Vision without traction is merely hallucination.
From Traction by Gino Wickman
Technology as an accelerator, not a creator.
From Good to Great by Jim Collins
Don’t worry about the money. Focus on your customer.
From The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
Focusing on fewer clients can lead to deeper relationships and more satisfaction.
From Company of One by Paul Jarvis
The most successful companies in an industry are often the ones that are least able to innovate.
The most successful companies are those that can adapt to change.
A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
From The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
The innovation that disrupts is often simpler and cheaper than what incumbents offer.
Measure what matters.
From The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Every successful company has a moment when they pivot and find their market fit.
From The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
Start small, learn fast, and iterate.
From The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
The banana business was more than just a trade; it was a way of life.
From The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen
Many successful businesses fail because they do not see the threat of disruptive innovation.
Value innovation is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy.
Without a customer, you don’t have a business.
The most successful companies are those that can create new markets.
Systems are the key to productivity and consistency.
From The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
Plans are harmful.
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing.
To build a company of one, you need to know your audience and serve them well.
From Company of One by Paul Jarvis
You must work on your business, not just in your business.
With the container, shipping became a predictable and reliable business.
From The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller by Marc Levinson
Disruptive technology should be framed as an opportunity, not a threat.
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
From The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
You don’t need to scale to succeed.
From Company of One by Paul Jarvis
The best companies are the ones that have a clear and compelling vision.
From Scaling Up by Verne Harnish
The cold start problem is about how to get a network to the point where it can become self-sustaining.
From The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
In the long run, the most successful companies are those that can adapt.
From High Output Management by Andy Grove
Building a company of one means creating a business that fits your life and your values.
From Company of One by Paul Jarvis
Enduring companies have a strong sense of purpose and core values.
To improve your business, you must improve yourself.
From The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
If you’re not careful, you can end up building a business that you don’t even want.
From Company of One by Paul Jarvis
Marketing is about understanding your customers better than they understand themselves.
From The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
Companies must learn to let go of the past to innovate for the future.
The hardest part of strategy is to choose what not to do.
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
A business is a system, not just a collection of products and services.
Focus on what won’t change.
The value curve is a central tool for visualizing your strategy.
Competition is not the best way to win.
The most successful companies are those that truly understand their core values.
From Traction by Gino Wickman
Networking is not just about collecting contacts; it’s about building relationships.
From Power Moves by Lauren McGoodwin
The business is not the job of the owner but the job of the business.
Planning is guessing.
All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.
From Zero to One by Peter Thiel
The culture of a company is its backbone.
Scaling up requires a different mindset than running a small business.
From Scaling Up by Verne Harnish
Validated learning is a process of demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the uncertainty of the startup.
From The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
A blue ocean is a market space that is untainted by competition.
Shipping containers have changed the way businesses think about logistics.
From The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller by Marc Levinson
Understanding money is essential for business.
From The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
To create a great company, you must create a great product.
From Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Every moment in business happens only once.
From Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Every business is a system of interrelated processes.
From The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
Metrics are important, but they are not the only thing that matters.
From The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
It is not the market that determines the future, but how one creates it.
The throughput of a system is the rate at which it generates money.
From The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
A blue ocean strategy requires a different kind of thinking.
Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name.
From How to Get Rich by Naval Ravikant
Being a Company of One means focusing on the value you create, not the size of your business.
From Company of One by Paul Jarvis
A business doesn’t have to be complicated to be successful.
From The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
Great vision without great people is irrelevant.
From Traction by Gino Wickman
You can’t improve what you don’t measure.
From Traction by Gino Wickman
The ability to execute is more important than the strategy itself.
From Scaling Up by Verne Harnish
You can’t manage what you don’t measure.
From The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
The ability to innovate depends on the right organizational structure.
Every business is a system for solving a problem.
From The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
Your business should serve you, not the other way around.
From Company of One by Paul Jarvis
If you’re going to eat shit, don’t nibble.
In a world of platforms, agility and adaptability are critical for survival.
From Machine, Platform, Crowd by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
The goal is to make money.
From The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
In the age of platforms, the power dynamics of business are shifting.
From Machine, Platform, Crowd by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
Disruption is a process, not an event.
The big tech companies are not just players in the game; they are the game.
From The Big Nine by Amy Webb
The best companies are those that adapt to change while maintaining their core ideology.
The most disruptive innovations often come from outside the established industry.
If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job.
Innovation accounting enables you to focus on the boring stuff.
From The Lean Startup by Eric Ries