Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

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.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

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.

Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.

One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.

'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.

You are either a player or a spectator! Players influence the game while spectators watch them to do it. Such is life!

I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.

I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.

If you have the skill, then you can move as you age.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.

Take the high road. No matter how much strife and consternation frustration and anger you might be confronted with dont go to that level.

I know no way of judging the future but by the past.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

The religion of Jesus Christ is neither new nor strange.

If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives.

I always wanted to have a headphone line but I feel like I'm going to do more than just headphones eventually, but we want to wake the world up right now with this.

At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.

I've been treated really well for 'Stick It.' There was this cop and he pulled me over and he was like, 'Oh my God, you're in 'Stick It.' I said, 'Yes. Yes. You're the last person I would think would be pumped up by this movie'. He let me go, so that was nice.

If you can beat New Zealand, then you're probably going to win the World Cup.