Quotes About Differentiation

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and molars. Sydney Smith was a "molar."

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

I recalled a theory my father had concocted one night, while we sat in an Oakland juke joint sharing a plate of ribs. He'd said humor, above all else, was what bound each of us and separated each of us from one another. Humor was the great moment of truth. What we thought was funny was how we defined ourselves, and revealed ourselves, whether we knew it or not.

Without any clear product difference, Lever could not dislodge Ivory, and ultimately withdrew from the market.

What a business does (the way it competes and where it chooses to do so) usually is easily imitated. It is more difficult to respond to what a business is, since that involves acquiring or neutralizing specialized assets or skills. Anyone can decide to distribute cereal or detergent through supermarkets, but few have the clout to do it as effectively as, say, General Mills.

Although I now call him 'Sting' to his face, I can still distinguish 'Sting' from 'Gordon Sumner'.

What is the mistake the criminal justice system is making? The major mistake, I believe, is the failure to differentiate between restraint and punishment; and to imagine that punishment will prevent, or deter, violence.

Did you know that wasn't me, the other Max?" I asked. "Yeah." "When?" "Right away." "How?" I persisted. "We look identical. She even had identical scars and scratches. She was wearing my clothes. How could you tell us apart?" He turned to me and grinned, making my world brighter. "She offered to cook breakfast.

Just like I was hooked the first time I worked a homicide. I knew then that I was different from everyone else, set apart from the concerns of everydy life that swept everyone else forward, on a river of errands, work, dates, drinking, eating, and sleeping. I was going in a different direction, toward revelation and retribution, and here were damn few of us headed that way.

The primary movement in the text is not from unity to differentiation, but from the isolation of an individual to the deep blessing of shared kinship and community.

It's what makes us different from every other creature in the world - we have time. And we have choices

When you try to be everything, you wind up being nothing.

The essence of positioning is sacrifice. You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position. Nyquil

Many developers and usability professionals still approach interface design by asking what the tasks are. Although this may get the job done, it won't produce much more than an incremental improvement: It won't provide a solution that differentiates your product in the market, and very often it won't really satisfy the user.

We went through a long phase where we defined ourselves in opposition to other people and other countries.

I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.

All things can be done by every company in the world. Apple builds a phone, and so does Samsung. It's not about being different but about being better at what you do.

That's the beautiful thing about my show... It's truly different every week. We get to pick and choose. Every morning, the girl from production comes to me with 100 different items, and I go, 'Fake, fake, fake, fake... that's cool.'

I often mention Alice Cooper. I don't wanna sound like Alice Cooper or be confused with him at all, and I certainly don't think we are.

We wanna be the first American Alpha. We don't wanna be the second Team Angle or World's Greatest Tag Team. We've worked so hard to get to where we are, and we feel like we're unique and different. Yes there are similarities but we're still different.

I wanna be myself and be the first Jason Jordan. I don't wanna be the second Kurt Angle.

I have my own batting style and don't want to be compared with Kohli.

A man has to accept responsibility for his life, no matter how hard it gets. That's what sets him apart from animals.

Execution, when first published in 2002, was based on our observation that the discipline of getting things done was what differentiated companies that succeeded from those that just muddled through or failed.