You can't be all things to all people.

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.

Do not think me a maiden who needs saving from a dragon. I am the dragon, and I will set the world aflame.

The reason I could never be an atheist is because when they get together they have literally nothing to talk about.

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

We may never know in this life why we face what we do, but we can feel confident that we can grow from the experience.

I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.

Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.