The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

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.

It is immoral not to tell.

They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.

I want to be the voice of change and hope. I want to confront the big challenges this country faces.

Losers take chances; winners make choices.

The world seemed less scary and I started to like myself a little bit more.

Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?

I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.