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

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.

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.

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal

They got to live before they can afford to die.

I do not know where I am going or what I will do when I get there. I know only that to put one foot in front of the other, moves me on, away from you to a place, where I do not want to be.

A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.

I came here...in 1962. I'm not going anywhere.

We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!

Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.