Michael Porter Quotes
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
Quotes to Explore
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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It's going to be so obvious when something isn't well made for VR. People are going to use the best VR content. That's the stuff that's going to get shown to people. That's the stuff that's going to get demoed. That's most of what people are going to buy.
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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I think the rest of the world has a very wide, very slow kick. It's very simple, breaststroke. People think it's highly technical. But the more narrow, more effective and quicker you can execute it, the faster you are going to go. There's less drag, basically.
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
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So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
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He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.
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There is no Polish culture without Jewish culture.
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One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?
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It was kind of unique and great to have two films coming out within a week. It certainly was a different experience for me.
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Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.
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Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
