Good Advice

"Speak little, do much."
Benjamin Franklin
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Just do one thing.

Bill Gates: I feel stupid for only speaking English !


“Focusing is about saying No.” ― Steve Jobs


Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. Alexander Graham Bell

I guess we teach a lot of things to our kids! too much stuff. They don't need it. They should do something very well. To be a specialist is something that is highly regarded and as Alexander Bell says you only burn when you focus!

Don't wander. Concentrate is my advice.


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http://thoughtmeme.blogspot.pt/2014/04/one-idea.html
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Just do It

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie



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Buy Germany

From the great Research House Gave Kal


According to Charles’s work on purchasing power parities, PPP between
Germany and the US implies an exchange rate of around €1.40. For France
it is about €1.20, and for Italy and Spain €1.10. So at €1.12 today, German
exporters are positively coining it. French companies are at last making
profits again, while Italian and Spanish firms have stopped losing money.

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I see several positives for Germany

oil is down
German companies can get financing at ZERO!
Bazzuka
They are already running a Current Account surplus of 7% GDP
The have the best companies in class/BIG get Bigger
Their clients (The south of Europe) will have a bit more money to buy BMW's
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Hollande nº2 ?

Tspiras could not sleep tonight

Usually the radical left wing parties don't win. They are very happy for that because they can say whatever they want and never have to execute.

This guys have a big problem now.

It's not going to be nice.

When he lands in Brussels and no one will receive him his troubles are going to start.




From WSJ, “Today the Greek people have written history,” Syriza’s young leader and likely new prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, said in his victory speech late Sunday. “The Greek people have given a clear, indisputable mandate for Greece to leave behind austerity.”
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There are no billionaires coming from farming !

The facility run by Mirai uses towering rows of thin soil trays and exact measurements for temperature, humidity, light and darkness, to create 100 times more vegetables per square foot than traditional agriculture methods. The bacteria-free, pesticide-free environment cuts food waste by 30-40 percent compared to lettuce grown outdoors.

With such exacting standards crops are not the only thing being saved. Energy and, most importantly, water is being conserved, too. The growing method uses 40% less power and, through recycling in the closed system, 99% less water than outdoor fields. Other advantages include food safety and year-round availability, no matter the climate or weather.

Mirai-indoor-farm-grows-lettuce



Farming has been a terrible business. I don't know many billionaires (zero to be exact) that have made their money on farming. However with this technology i don't see many billionaires because there are no barriers to entry. What i see is traditional agriculture to have even more problems.

What we are seeing is tech killing traditional, but i don't see tech making a lot of money. I don't see anyone besides the monopolies & Brands making real money.
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Is it possible to win vs someone that works much more than you? YES

Yang Wei, a 12th grader at this public school, steered me through the crowd. A peach farmer’s son in half-laced high-tops, Yang had spent the previous three years, weekends included, stumbling to his first class at 6:20 in the morning and returning to his room only after the end of his last class at 10:50 at night.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/magazine/inside-a-chinese-test-prep-factory.html?referrer=&_r=1


In Germany and in the north of Europe countries people work hard but not many hours a day, and of course never at weekends. In China, Japan and the USA people work much more extended hours. 

Did the best students in my College (i took Economics) did much better in life than the average student? NO

Who has the best product? unfortunately the best product is the product the client/prospect has the perception that is the best. That is the best product.

How do we create the perception that our product is the best?


From Al Ries,

In the marketing community, there is a struggle between two schools of thought. One school is focused on the product. The other school is focused on the brand.
The product folks believe the ultimate winner in every marketing battle is the better product. If this is so, goes the thinking, the role of a company's marketing program is to communicate the features and benefits that make a company's product clearly superior to its competitors.
......
The role of perception
There's no question Red Bull has the perception of being the best energy drink. The same is true of Starbucks and coffee. The iPhone and smartphones.
What else do we know about perceptions? They are very difficult to change. Once a person holds a strong perception about a specific brand, it's extremely difficult to change that perception.
Developing a better coffee than Starbucks is a simple task compared to developing a better perception than Starbucks in consumers' minds. In fact, it's almost impossible -- unless Starbucks does something stupid.Perceptions are difficult to change. When was the last time you changed your mind? How many Democrats became Republicans last week? And vice versa?

http://adage.com/article/al-ries/a-brand-a-product/294829/


The Chinese work many hours but unfortunately for them  the perception of everything that is Chinese is not good.

If you work hard and have a good perception you can be nº1. You are CR7
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