Interesting thoughts from the talk by Dušan Olaj
The problem with Slovenian entrepreneurs is that they or a small circle of people around them are always the only ones who stand for their quality. A customer can't buy your stuff if he doesn't know about you.
The wolf is fed by the feet, says a Ukrainian proverb.
If you follow in the footsteps of someone in front of you, you will never overtake them.
Success stories are a flaw in the system.
The most complicated things in the world are usually the simplest.
It can be good to keep things to yourself for a while and then say them more widely.
In 1994, I was imprisoned in Kazakhstan for claiming to be from a country that did not exist.
If you don't have the opportunity to take full responsibility, you'll run to your boss for every little thing and ask if it's the right thing to do.
As long as I am in the Duol, no one in the Duol will be stamping.
In the beginning, we ran the company by intuition.
I'm still the one who says - this is a nice straight motorway, but I'd go a little left and a little right.
Europe has lost its way.
The basis of prosperity is added value.
China is uncompetitive, you have no chance. You can only cooperate with China today.
In business, you always make the best decisions possible. In politics, you take the best solutions.
Young entrepreneurs must be allowed to breathe.
Business brings a lot of negative energy that needs to be released somehow.
In a way, being a top manager is like being a top athlete - you remove your limits. A top athlete is top because he goes beyond his pain threshold. In business, it is similar.
The best thing - if you are a lone wolf - is ... peace.
From the age of five until last year, I lived in a kind of preoccupation - you can't, you have to, you can't lose, you have to do it, you have to care... But I never regretted it and it was never hard.
Entrepreneurship is not something you learn from books.
Just because you have a diploma in your hand doesn't mean you're good. A diploma in your hands means you know how your colleagues think. And if you want to be better than them, you will have to think differently.
Trust in yourself. It is not easy to be able to create this belief. The moment you know that you can do something, that you are capable of something, then there is no obstacle to not doing it.
Some captured moments from the event THE STORIES OF ACROBATES with Uroš Slake, Dušan Olaj, DUOL
These events are also organised to promote entrepreneurship and creativity and to show entrepreneurship in a positive light.
