Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.

If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.

Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.

How we ask the question is extremely important to how we find the answer.

Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past.

Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.

The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.

Live an exemplary life as a leader. When you are gone, you will still lead from the grave because your influence, impacts and inspirations will become and information for the living.

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.

I like your glasses, ” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile at everyone, because then, when you smile at me... Cather.

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

Every pound for a woman in the real world is seven pounds for an actress.

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.