Leadership & Management: Vision & Strategy Quotes

"We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile"

Alan Autry, Actor

"A multi-purpose stadium is an absolute must in order to invigorate our downtown and, simultaneously, let the rest of the country witness that we can get things done"

Alan Autry, Actor

"The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people"

Alan Autry, Actor

"We must be willing to courageously invest in our city"

Alan Autry, Actor

"I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown"

Alan Autry, Actor

"The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction"

Bill Owens, Politician

"Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process"

Blanche Lincoln, Politician

"I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did"

Elia Kazan, Director

"If I would need to make a prediction, I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible"

David Korten, Activist

"And American voters understand that if we want to keep fighting to move in the new - in a new direction, we've got a long way to go. And we need to make sure we continue with Democrats being in the majority"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"I suppose I had these concerns, but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?"

Andrew Cuomo, Politician

"Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands"

Bhumibol Adulyadej, Statesman

"If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself"

Karl Rove, Politician

"Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings"

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Businesswoman

"You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term"

James Sinegal, Businessman

"I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country, it is a time when destiny is ours to hold"

Paul Martin, Politician

"Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There Can be only 1 public vision for an organization"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"I hardly see myself as a futurist"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history, and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems, and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path, and it changed"

Boris Yeltsin, President

"Our party may have swung too far right at various times"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties"

William Redington Hewlett, Businessman

"No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician"

James Harrington, Philosopher

"Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate"

Michael Bergdahl, Author

"Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out"

David Horowitz, Writer

"Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself"

James Sinegal, Businessman

"I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

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