A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.

Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do.

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

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

If a strategy meets a goal: It's working. If a strategy meets a target: It's a success.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.

Never abandon your calling or go outside your purpose

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on.

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.

If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.

Competition for status is a zero sum game

It becomes essential to choose one's path. Life consists in making these choices. One develops by choosing. It requires strength to become a child of God.