#be

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#anyone #before #even #going #history

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy. ↗

— Michael Porter

#best #ceos #core #i #know

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different. ↗

— Michael Porter

#be different #choices #choosing #deliberately #different

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems. ↗

— Michael Porter

#become #big #fast #goal #grow

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness. ↗

— Michael Porter

#distinction #effectiveness #fundamental #operational #strategy

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money. ↗

— Michael Porter

#behind #billions #business #decades #ineffective

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#continue #end #friendship #which #will

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. ↗

— John Portman

#architects #attention #believe #building #concentrate

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#because #doing #get #i #i think

I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#been #brad #brad pitt #crushes #day