#in

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

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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

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#apprenticeship #craft #else #like #most

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

Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people. ↗

— Michael Porter

#all things #choices #people #strategy #things

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. ↗

— Michael Porter

#essence #strategy

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

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 continuously improving. ↗

— Michael Porter

#companies #continuity #continuously #good #hand