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A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique. ↗

— Michael Porter

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

— Michael Porter

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

— Michael Porter

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

— Michael Porter

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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

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The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change. ↗

— Michael Porter

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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

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The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together. ↗

— Jon Postel

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If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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