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Strategy Quotes by Michael Porter
- If a strategy meets a goal: It's working. If a strategy meets a target: It's a success.
- Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
- Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.
- The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
- 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 setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of…
- The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
- The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
- Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
- Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.
- The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.
- The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
- There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
- A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
- In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off. If you do that, do so with…
- 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…
- So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at…
- Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people.
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- You cannot make a cheap palace. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results. — Seth Godin