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

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

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 ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.

It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.

Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.

Don’t confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

Never confuse activity with action.

If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.

When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran’s nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.