“Customers don't ask to see your business plan.”
Steve Blank (1953) American businessman
Not All Who Wander Are Lost, K&S Ranch, 2010, p. 40.
“.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.”
— James Clavell, book Shōgun
Source: Shōgun
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