The most dangerous mindset in business is "This is how we've always done it."
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.
You have to be willing to fail to be successful.
The core competitiveness of banks lies in their ability to serve the real economy, not simply in scale expansion.