Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.

Strategy and culture should have breakfast together.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook believe that ‘done is better than perfect’.

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage...

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

I wanted to tell her secrets I hadn't even told myself yet.

...these vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor.

In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

If you want to make [your own way in music] it as a player, which is very difficult, as Art Blakey said to me, "We're blessed to have the opportunity to do this." So just keep that in mind.

Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super-cool.

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office