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 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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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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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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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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God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
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In Ted's world, we want the death penalty to be imposed at the scene of the crime.
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.
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I believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I'm always trying to improve myself.
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Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they want to be different, with different clothes or shorter hair or less fat. It's a fact. If there was a guy who just liked being himself and didn't want to be anybody else, that guy would be the most different guy in the world and everybody would want to be him.
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Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
