The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

All strategy depends on competition.

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by a diabolical killer.

You can become anything that you want to be but the goal is for you to become your best self.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still make the banks rich. And it is a fairytale.

Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.