Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

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.

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

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.

Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.

Excellence is a high quality, that delivers the gold nugget of success.

You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your illiteracy.

Myth offers a third place to stand or a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas and hardening ideologies.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble.

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment.

Kids eh? Little treasures, I love 'em... couldn't eat a whole one though.

You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.