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Only the Paranoid Survive:
There simply is no surefire formula by which you can decide if something is signal or noise. But because there is no surefire formula, every decision you make should be carefully scrutinized and reexamined as time passes.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
You can’t tell what that blip represents at first but you keep watching radar scan after radar scan, looking to see if the object is approaching, what its speed is and what shape it takes as it comes closer.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
…things are not cut and dried, and even if they were, things change. Therefore, you have to pay eternal attention to developments that could become a ’10X’ factor in your business.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
Most strategic inflection points, instead of coming in with a bang, approach on little cat feet. They are often not clear until you can look at the events in retrospect.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
When the importance of your competitors shift, it is often a sign that something significant is going on.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
…there are people who are quick to recognize impending change and cry out an early warning… they are usually in middle management.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
…news from the periphery is an important contribution to the process of sorting out signal from noise.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
…an entrepreneur is someone who moves resources from areas of lower productivity and yield to areas of higher productivity and yield. – Peter Drucker
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
…don’t shut off your radar screens and go on about your business, discounting everything even if at first it seems quite crummy.
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Only the Paranoid Survive:
When you think about it, first versions of most things usually are [disappointing].
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