Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

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.

Every step we take toward the top is possible because of all the little steps we took in the past.

They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

Only rainbows after rain...The sun will always come again.

Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.

There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel.

When the stormy winds of life threaten to knock you down, may you have the courage to spread your wings and fly!

There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.