If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

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.

Arise and shine bright.

Progress and motion are not synonymous.

If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

It has been years since I have seen anyone who could even look as if he were in love. No one's face lights up any more except for political conversation.

Even if this is exaggerated, they are close to (enrichment ability) and the world faces a new reality.

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, "Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!"

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?