Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?

Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking

New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State

The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature.

What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can't function normally.

Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.

In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

Everyone cannot like you. Don't waste your time trying to change those who do not. Just be you.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.

...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.