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

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.
Corliss Lamont

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
Michael Porter

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
Junius

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
Charles Lamb

The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.
Steve Wozniak

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
Ira Glasser

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
Origen

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
Oliver Cromwell

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
Frances McDormand

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
Stephen Carter

Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.
Todd Tiahrt

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.
Peter McWilliams

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.
Jennifer O'Neill

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Mae West

When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.
Paul Simon

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
Margaret Sanger

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
Maggie Gyllenhaal

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
Robert Foster Bennett