“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.”

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It’s not organized around the needs of the patient.

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.

If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.

We become happier not by accumulating more things but by creating richer experiences.

Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.

Maturity is willing to acknowledge what you are willing to shift, learn or give to create the kind of relationship you want.

Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent ‘carbon summer’.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.