Core Quote by Michael Porter Download Open image “The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.” — Michael Porter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Core Strategy Teach Teacher
The most effective CEOs have a primary source for tracking their markets. They meet with their teams frequently enough to keep innovation flowing, to… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
The key thing for a CEO to keep their head in the game is recognize that there's turbulent times, plan for, you know, bad… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
It's easier to coach a technical founder how to be CEO and manage a business than it is to teach a professional CEO the… — Peter Levine Copy Share Image
To be the best CEO you can be, you have to be passionate about the business you're running. And I have true passion for… — Adena Friedman Copy Share Image
I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about. — Edward Zander Copy Share Image
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
“People always ask me, “What’s the secret to being a successful CEO?” Sadly, there is no secret, but if there is one skill that… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
A CEO does only three things. Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders. Recruits, hires, and… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
The CEO's job is always about leadership. It's about leadership in a vision, in terms of where you're going, it's about making sure that… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO. — Michael Porter 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
I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you… — Benjamin Stone Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core. — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by… — Jean-Louis Barrault Copy Share Image
I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
