Michael Porter Quotes

Strategy is about making choices, it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.

~ Michael Porter

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

~ Michael Porter

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

~ Michael Porter

Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.

~ Michael Porter

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.

~ Michael Porter

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.

~ Michael Porter

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

~ Michael Porter

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

~ Michael Porter

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.

~ Michael Porter

Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.

~ Michael Porter

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

~ Michael Porter

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

~ Michael Porter

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.

~ Michael Porter

I think that, too many times, business has been seen as acting in its narrow self-interest rather than, essentially, contributing more broadly to society. I think a lot of that is unintentional; I don't think that many managers are deliberately trying to be unethical or are not trying to be sensitive to social needs.

~ Michael Porter

Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.

~ Michael Porter