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Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.
MICHAEL PORTER When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand...
BILLY PORTER

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursin...
JON PORTER I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight ...
BILLY PORTER

As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are abl...
JON PORTER

I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and th...
MICHAEL PORTER I do tend to overdo everything.
GAIL PORTER You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go ...
GAIL PORTER I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
GAIL PORTER I read everything and anything. I love books.
GAIL PORTER Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
GAIL PORTER I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 sea...
GAIL PORTER My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
GAIL PORTER I don't believe in God.
GAIL PORTER The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and misera...
GAIL PORTER Every day I do something that freaks me out.
GAIL PORTER I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your ear...
GAIL PORTER I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop...
GAIL PORTER I try to cope with everything through humor.
GAIL PORTER People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
GAIL PORTER Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.
GAIL PORTER Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
GAIL PORTER I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
GAIL PORTER So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really...
GAIL PORTER

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its ori...
JANE PORTER

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anythi...
COLE PORTER No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
NOAH PORTER

Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.
SYLVIA PORTER Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.
IRENE PORTER

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.
COLE PORTER

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
ELIOT PORTER

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
COLE PORTER

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything...
COLE PORTER

Aesthetics happen.
PORTER ARNEILL

I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent abilit...
PORTER ARNEILL

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
JANE PORTER

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.
NAN PORTER

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statistici...
SYLVIA PORTER

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and ...
JANE PORTER People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing....
JOHN PORTER Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
NOAH PORTER

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperativ...
JON PORTER

Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought ab...
JON PORTER

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

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
MICHAEL PORTER

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
MICHAEL PORTER For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging,...
BILLY PORTER

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

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.
MICHAEL PORTER

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
MICHAEL PORTER

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves...
JANE PORTER I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm t...
BILLY PORTER I took 'Grease' to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditi...
BILLY PORTER

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not cov...
JON PORTER I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I ...
BILLY PORTER

The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and n...
JON PORTER Seeing Jennifer Holliday from 'Dreamgirls' perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later dis...
BILLY PORTER What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cance...
GAIL PORTER Bald is the new black!
GAIL PORTER I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about lif...
BILLY PORTER This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll a...
HENRY PORTER

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has be...
JON PORTER

As minorities and other immigrant groups become more important to our economy, the inner city is a c...
MICHAEL PORTER

Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, ...
MICHAEL PORTER I had just retired and was not sure what I was going to do. I hadn't played (softball) in 35 years. ...
BILL PORTER While you can sell a hot car designed for younger buyers to an old guy, you can't sell a stodgy old ...
BILL PORTER Usually the soft elements rank higher than the cost. They may not pick the cheapest. We've seen this...
BILL PORTER We seem to get busier every year. We continue to push ahead to be one of the top courses in the stat...
BILL PORTER They can be very dangerous. They're scary places. One thing you can't argue with is, they're cheaper...
BILL PORTER We had a terrific fourth quarter and finished 2005 with good momentum. Our product portfolio is very...
BILL PORTER

In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionat...
MICHAEL PORTER I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me...
BILLY PORTER

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

In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off....
MICHAEL PORTER

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.
COLE PORTER I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old s...
SCOTT PORTER

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
MICHAEL PORTER

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity
MICHAEL PORTER

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that what...
SYLVIA PORTER I'm not going to make someone my priority, when I'm their option.
AVA PORTER

[And I also thought about one of Yale's alumni, namely the urbane songwriter Cole Porter. The grands...
COLE PORTER We also played in a round-robin tournament, so both squads had an enjoyable week.
CHRIS PORTER

We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front wh...
JON PORTER When I first went to Stevens Point, I never thought I'd ever be close to the NBA. I didn't e...
TERRY PORTER It's kind of hard to sit up here and hold a grudge when it doesn't really matter at this point. The ...
JOEY PORTER

We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as ...
JON PORTER You can't avenge that this early in the season. Last year we beat them and it didn't matter because ...
JOEY PORTER

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
JANE PORTER

Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I ...
MICHAEL PORTER Plain-dealing is a jewel, and he that useth it shall die a beggar
HENRY PORTER Retirement is postponed and we will continue to train him toward a race in the future. The timing is...
RICK PORTER

Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.
MICHAEL PORTER Canadian consumer spending is finally poised to hit the brakes after a spectacular run earlier this ...
DOUGLAS PORTER The industrial sector is cruising along at a moderate but not spectacular pace, and that's a good th...
DOUGLAS PORTER

Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the Euro...
JON PORTER When you're doing what you love, it's not exhausting at all, actually. It's completely e...
BILLY PORTER

You learn to see by practice. It's just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The m...
ELIOT PORTER

You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, tha...
MICHAEL PORTER Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man
PETER PORTER

You're the Nile,/ You're the Tower of Pisa,/ You're the smile/ On the Mona Lisa.
COLE PORTER

It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the w...
JON PORTER

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying...
MICHAEL PORTER When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on ...
GEORGE PORTER The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an up...
TERRY PORTER

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been represent...
JON PORTER

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is onl...
JANE PORTER He was just overworked. He's doing much better.
DAVID PORTER In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at ...
PETER PORTER When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is...
BILLY PORTER As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was...
PETER PORTER The Natural world, in fact, enters us and becomes ,well, becomes really a kind of life, it has a pil...
PETER PORTER I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly wel...
PETER PORTER

It was real different, compared to the people and everything.

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