“If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to ...” — Michael Porter Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.”

“I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries.”

“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.”

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

“Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.”

“Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.”

“What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.”

“Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.”

“Technology has changed our industry, and I think that's opened up different revenue streams and ways to make money and distribute television. It's made the global conversation easier, quicker.”

“Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.”