Michael Porter Quotes

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

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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.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Family
  • College
  • Proud

• I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Women
  • Enjoy
  • Explore

• 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.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Done
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Vision

• Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Things
  • Popular
  • Moment

• I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Never
  • Hopeless
  • Bright

• After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Always

• Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Order
  • U.S.
  • Crown

• I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Couple
  • Hearts
  • Collection

• I always joke that I want to be able to retire from boxing and still be able to look into the mirror without seeing scars all over my face. I love my sport, but I would rather not have to spend hours doing my makeup to cover up the memories once I retire.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Memories
  • Mirror
  • Face

• 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.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Action

• 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.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Game

• I was kind of lost for several years.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Lost
  • Kind
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Better
  • Apple

• 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.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Best
  • Content

• One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Through

• 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.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Simple

• In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim.

  

  Bono U2
  • Dream
  • Swim
  • Sorrows

• It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

  

  Frederick Marryat

• I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

  

  Trevor George Smith Jr.

• Physical symptoms such as muscle tension, back problems, stomach distress, constipation, diarrhea, headaches, obesity or maybe even hypertension can be caused by suppressing your emotions. Suppressed anger may also cause you to overreact to people and situations or to act inappropriately. Unexpressed anger can cause you to become irritable, irrational, and prone to emotional outbursts and episodes of depression.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Problems
  • Depression
  • Emotions

• Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Different
  • Know
  • Feel

• Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

  

  Michael Porter
  • Different
  • Strategy
  • Making