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What destroys great companies is not competition but their own success, because the more golden the goose the greater the temptation to butcher it.

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  1. Eric Ries

    Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible

    all kinds of famous companies where the thing that destroyed them was not competition. It was not someone else came up with a better product. No, their very success became a liability because the more golden the goose, the greater the temptation to butcher.

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