Even a pig can fly................................

As he later put it, he learned that "doing the right thing is more important than doing things right."  When a company is riding a growing trend, management is under less pressure to do everything perfectly.  (Another saying of his from those years is, "Even a pig can fly if it finds itself in the eye of the storm.")


-Clay Shirky,  as excerpted from Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream.  The he quoted in this passage is Lei Jun, founder of Xiaomi