So the CD is a great way to get yourself acquainted with some people who in three years, maybe even one year, be really big.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

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.

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

The power within is strength of the spirit.

I could now see her the way she actually is and not in the distorted way my mind presented her to me when I was trying to find a reason to reject her and move on

The eyes are the true reflection of a man's age and sensibilities.

Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

Looks fade. Brains don't.

Live with passion. Live with purpose.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.