Leadership & Management: Vision & Strategy Quotes

"The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare"

John Major, Politician

"Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there"

Tim O'Reilly, Publisher

"It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong"

Bono, Musician

"The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs will be addressing the needs and curing the problem that we set out to do"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals"

Mike Pence, Politician

"The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"We need to go everywhere. There is not one county in this state, I don't care how far west you go, that doesn't have Democrats. We have to be proud of who we are"

Howard Dean, Politician

"We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world"

Bernie Sanders, Politician

"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will"

Shigeru Miyamoto, Designer

"Each of us has come to share the same point of view, that a global e-marketplace is absolutely essential if we are to drive new levels of efficiency for the industry"

Phil Condit, Businessman

"But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public"

John Hutton, Educator

"You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services, have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future"

John Hutton, Educator

"But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency"

John Hutton, Educator

"Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

"One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics"

Paul Begala, Journalist

"Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win"

Paul Begala, Journalist

"Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna win it"

Paul Begala, Journalist

"I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed"

Carol Moseley Braun, Politician

"It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them"

Robert Musil, Writer

"In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained"

Phil Condit, Businessman

"We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure"

John Hutton, Educator

"As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better"

John Hutton, Educator

"But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense, and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow"

John Hutton, Educator

"The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship, particularly with Europe, which does share our values and interests, even if it disagrees with us on specific policies"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services"

John Hutton, Educator

"Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months, will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously"

John Hutton, Educator

"Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union, which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century"

John Hutton, Educator

"Our obligation at the network is: Where do we fit into that, and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people?"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist"

Edward Koch, Politician

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