Leadership & Management: Vision & Strategy Quotes

"We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years"

Vicente Fox, Statesman

"Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow, but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization"

Peter Mandelson, Politician

"The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve"

Chris Christie, Politician

"The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be decided on; for sacred edifices, for the forum, and for other public buildings"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"Essentially, we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain"

Peter Mandelson, Politician

"We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country, which is run by generals and colonels"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing"

John Hume, Politician

Herbert Croly, Author

"By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world"

James Forrestal, Public Servant

"If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... By going first, we can become first"

Chris Christie, Politician

"Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power"

Garet Garrett, Journalist

"The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project"

Juan Antonio Samaranch, Celebrity

"Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction"

Henry W. Kendall, Scientist

"Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe,. We have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned, and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power"

George Pataki, Politician

"We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York State taxpayers"

Carl Paladino, Politician

"I see a New York that is once again the Empire State"

Carl Paladino, Politician

"Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together"

George Pataki, Politician

"We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope!"

Rick Perry, Politician

"Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality"

Rick Perry, Politician

"Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility"

Rick Perry, Politician

"Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us, so let's stop trying to curry favor with them"

Rick Perry, Politician

"If your dream is only about you, it's too small"

Ava DuVernay, Director

"My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky can look forward to locating here"

Ernie Fletcher, Politician

"We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something"

Charlotte Bunch, Activist

"I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen"

Rory Bremner, Comedian

"Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"So what we have is a president that has brought this issue before the American people. We now understand that we can't wait. We understand every year we wait it gets $600 billion worse"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

"A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which those objects can be best attained"

Joseph Story, Judge

"Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business"

Thomas Kinkade, Artist

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