“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.”

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.

The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.

The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they’re mutually reinforcing.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

Health care historically has been a very siloed field that’s organized around medical specialties – urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth – and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.

Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.

If a strategy meets a goal: It’s working. If a strategy meets a target: It’s a success.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal

Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.

If your goal is anything but profitability – if it’s to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader – you’ll hit problems.

Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.

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

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!