Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.
Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.
Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.
The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.
All strategy depends on competition.
I had this great urge. . . I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.
When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.
There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'