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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Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.
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I've always looked at famous actors and hope that once they get a part that they have success in, they would reprise it every few years in the way a pop singer will reprise their hits. Like Bob Dylan singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' until he's fed up with it, finding different ways of doing it.
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One of my ongoing projects is to expand third-eye technology whereby two people can watch two different things on a screen or type in two different languages on the same surface - all they have to do is wear a pair of hi-tech glass spectacles.
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From Mark's standpoint, when he was playing last year we weren't as good certainly as we are now, ... I think we're better now. And hopefully that will prove out to be the case.
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I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.
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Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
