Michael Porter Quotes

Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.

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• I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Women
  • Joy
  • Famous

• I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Family
  • Wish
  • Child

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Style
  • Romantic

• I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Fan
  • Scared
  • Horror

• I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Home
  • Try
  • Kitchen

• I think for people that are dealing with this out there, the important thing to know is that this is real. It's called CIU, and there are solutions out there for you.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Life
  • Culture

• My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' called and offered me a cover just like that. I turned them down initially, because I was nervous about it and my boyfriend at the time didn't want me to do it, but they kept coming back, so I eventually said yes.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Time
  • Game
  • Career

• It's not going to interfere with the film. I heal miraculously. I've been in an auto accident and another fire. They thought I'd need plastic surgery, but I haven't a scar...No, I don't think I'm accident prone, but it's strange.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Fire
  • Auto

• Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Free
  • Failure

• Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • Great
  • Art

• I have made it quite clear – and so did Mr Prior when he was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland – that a unified Ireland was one solution. That is out. A second solution was confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out. That is a derogation from sovereignty.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Space

• I'm not in the type of work where you should rest.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Work
  • Rest

• If the public understands the central bank's views on the economy and monetary policy, then households and businesses will take those views into account in making their spending and investment plans; policy will be more effective as a result.

  

  Jerome Powell

• People become actors because they want to hide, and it's not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with being an actor in the public eye, but I haven't found a comfortable way to deal with it.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • People
  • Responsibility

• I was at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got 'SNL' in 2005.

  

  Bill Hader
  • City

• I think you can fairly say I spawned or laid an egg that has turned into a lifestyle industry.

  

  Martha Stewart

• For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Done
  • City
  • Space

• That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Work
  • Different
  • Love

• Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

  

  Kurt Russell
  • People
  • Different

• Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.

  

  Michael Porter
  • Different
  • Values
  • Strategy