Quote Originally Posted by anonamatic View Post
That while sound advice isn't always true either. If it was well China would still be nearly completely agrarian.
Foreign companies who knew how to succeed invested in PRC directly and launched the export boom. At the very least their told their Chinese suppliers how exactly to produce what. The real Chinese business success came later on, and they still export a lot of flawed products when there's no thorough foreign QC.


It's really, really rare that those who fail in a benign environment succeed in a tougher one.
(The German football national team is such an exception; they can easily fail against a Faroer islands "national" team, but are still a top team at every world championship.)