“Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.”
― Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
― Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.”
― Insurgent
― Insurgent
“The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.”
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“Those three things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It’s whether our work fulfills us.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.”
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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