Michael Porter Quotes

I believe in the difference that a man or woman can make at the top of an organisation. Once you have a really good guy in place at the top, the next most important thing is continuity of management as opposed to a revolving door.

You cannot change strategy due to a trend.

Our goal is not to produce immediate results. We've been tasked with producing long-term results. That means that there's more risk in any individual thing we take on. But we still aspire to a strong return on investment.

Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition.

We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

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.

We want to do what is good for Cardiff and for the long-term survival, and hopefully Cardiff can be around for a long time and, God willing, be around in the Premier League.

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

There is something to this vision thing.

Universities are good at long term thinking. Of the 85 institutions in the world that were in existence 500 years ago, 70 of them are universities.

Execution without a long term strategy leads nowhere. Likewise a long term strategy without execution leads nowhere.

Continuity is important in sports.

My game is characterised by consistency.

My priority is to ensure the club and Craven Cottage each have a viable and sustainable Premier League future that fans of present and future generations can be proud of.

The key for us is always a multiple-year strategy, and a multiple-year strategy means great products, great customer relationships, and doing solid engineering.

Our goal in Liverpool is to create the kind of stability that the Red Sox enjoy. We are committed to building for the long term.

An entrepreneur never thinks of quarter-on-quarter; he thinks for 25 years, 50 years.

Continuity in Formula One can never be underestimated.

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

You can’t look too far ahead. Do that and you’ll lose sight of what you’re doing and stumble. I’m not saying you should focus solely on the details right in front of you, mind you. You’ve got to look ahead a bit or else you’ll bump into something. You’ve got to conform to the proper order and at the same time keep an eye out for what’s ahead. That’s critical, no matter what you’re doing.