The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

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.

Ignorance is a crime against ones self

Sometimes the greatest storms bring out the greatest beauty… Life can be a storm, but your hope is a rainbow and your friends and family are the gold.

Cowgirl Courage isn't the lack of fear, but the courage to take action in the face of fear.

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!