Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.

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 was a subversive notion, the idea that she was free. Free to choose where to go and what to do with her time.

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

If there's a new way, I'll be the first in line.But, it better work this time.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.

Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.