Function Quote by Michael Porter Download Open image “Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.” — Michael Porter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Function Ifs Management Risk Risk management Scenarios Strategy
People say they want to be in risky environments and do all kinds of exciting stuff. But they don't actually know what risk means:… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes. — Robert S. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The risk pertinent to a particular attempt (and to its evaluation as an attempt of its sort) is the risk that the agent will… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Risk deters those who see what they could lose. Those focused on the gain see it as a necessary part of their journey, even… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Everyone has a different definition of risk. Sometimes that creates opportunities as well. — Dave McClure 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
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image