In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”

Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do.

Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.

If a strategy meets a goal: It's working. If a strategy meets a target: It's a success.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.

Consistency also teaches us that some things do not change, though we may wish they would. Not everything bends to our personal preferences.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

I don't like meat from the grocery store, it makes me nervous

So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.

Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.

All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?