Michael Porter Quotes

As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance?

Michael Porter

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I don't hunt big African game anymore.

Jimmy John Liautaud

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The LGBT Community was mostly responsible for birthing my career, and I am deeply indebted to you... You have loved me faithfully and unconditionally, and for so many years you provided me with work even though my star had long since faded.

Jennifer Holliday

WorkCommunityI AmMeLovedYou

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

BusinessMeEasyFindCruelBeing

Sometimes when you lose your mobile phone, even though it's frustrating, it's sort of rewarding in many ways because, though we do rely on them a lot, we are not reliant on them. The world continues without.

Matt Smith

WorldYouLosePhoneSometimesYour

It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.

Andy Goldsworthy

WorkSnowJourneyQualityColdWet

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

John Poindexter

GovernmentPeopleDataTrailAudit

The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.

Simon Mainwaring

HealthTimePeoplePartnerPlay

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

Rupert Everett

YourselfWarFlyLimitsThinkYou

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

Christian Kane

FootballPeopleSafetyToughStrong

When someone is 90, and you've seen their entire life, you just think you know everything about them and that they must live a straight-laced life.

Claire Foy

LifeLiveThinkSomeoneYouKnow

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Claude Debussy

LifeHopeSadBeautifulArtPeople

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

Brian K. Vaughan

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