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“Make sure your product is something your potential investors could personally see themselves using, or else they won’t be able to see any value in it whatsoever. Even though women are half of the population, remember, anything targeting them is considered a niche market.”
― How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women
― How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women
“If you have the choice between saving a man’s ego or saving his life, trust me. Save his ego. He’ll thank you for it later. I mean, he won’t because he’ll be dead, but you know what I mean.”
― How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women
― How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women
“You may be bipolar, suffer from depression, or anxiety, or any number of other mental health issues. Your company absolutely supports you focusing on these issues and getting the help you need as long as it never comes up at work and you get all of your work done on time.”
― How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women
― How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women
“The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children. Because, let’s face it, checking your “likes” is the new smoking.”
― Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
― Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
“While tracking trends can be a useful tool in dealing with the unpredictable future, market research can be more of a problem than a help. Research does best at measuring the past. New ideas and concepts are almost impossible to measure. No one has a frame of reference. People don’t know what they will do until they face an actual decision.
The classic example is the research conducted before Xerox introduced the plain-paper copier. What came back was the conclusion that no one would pay five cents for a plain-paper copy when they could get a Thermofax copy for a cent and a half. Xerox ignored the research, and the rest is history.”
― The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk
The classic example is the research conducted before Xerox introduced the plain-paper copier. What came back was the conclusion that no one would pay five cents for a plain-paper copy when they could get a Thermofax copy for a cent and a half. Xerox ignored the research, and the rest is history.”
― The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk
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