Ripple Quote by Michael Porter Download Open image “Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.” — Michael Porter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ripple Ripple effect Urban
Companies that understand their links with the communities they operate in, and their impact on the environment, are most likely to prosper in the… — Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham Copy Share Image
We're not a city that has normally relied on major corporations. It doesn't mean that we don't want to have major anchor tenant corporations… — Francis X. Suarez Copy Share Image
Attracting business to a city is of huge benefit for taxes, jobs, purchasing of homes and home goods. — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
Growing companies need commercial space, and their employees need to live nearby. — David Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Cities with clean air gain an economic advantage, because where people want to live and work, businesses want to invest. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I've always known I've wanted to build companies that have a social impact. — Caroline Ghosn Copy Share Image
The best thing a company can do for the communities in which it operates is to have a vibrant and sustainable business. — Irene Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut. — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living. — Kate Brown Copy Share Image
I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Being an American doesn't mean that you're guaranteed a high wage. You have to be productive, and we have to create a very low-cost,… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionately focused in the inner cities. Shining a spotlight on the… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
I think that, too many times, business has been seen as acting in its narrow self-interest rather than, essentially, contributing more broadly to society.… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
Why chase after thoughts, which are superficial ripples of present awareness? Rather look directly into the naked, empty nature of thoughts; then there is… — Jamgon Kongtrul Copy Share Image
The theater is a communal experience, and whatever the emotional connection between an audience member and the actors onstage, it ripples through the whole… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
We are all pilgrims on an elusive and endless road... Despite our attempts to build lives on stone foundations, our spirits continuously flow. Endless… — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lost.' We have one major event that happens that you are… — Sonya Walger Copy Share Image
Many women don’t know what orgasm is. Many men don’t know was total orgasm is. Many only achieve a local orgasm, a genital orgasm;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot.… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
