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Somehow, we have come to equate profitability with a lack of ambition

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Enduring brands will be profitable. It’s not optional. But you need clarity on when and how you will get there and investors aligned with that journey

Looking at the last three decades in the field, I would be most satisfied if there were 100 or 1,000 of us in this tribe.

We’ve all been stereotyped. But we face it with humour and a thick skin. You cannot let it affect your focus

It's not expert-driven influence anymore. It’s user-generated, community-led. You need to meet them where they are with authenticity.

Building products has become easier and cheaper, but building brands is harder than ever

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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