Leadership & Management: Vision & Strategy Quotes

"That doesn't mean you have to have the lowest costs in the industry to succeed. But you need to make sure the activities and product attributes that increase your costs above the other guy bring in at least that much more in revenue, and hopefully more"

Gerard Arpey, Businessman

"I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that"

Ron Davies, Politician

"Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World"

John Hench, Artist

"We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians"

Traian Basescu, Politician

"In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Without a vision, you just do what everybody else does and you are just there"

Michael Schenker, Musician

"From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... Yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives"

Laura Miller, Politician

"But there is so much more to do for the city we love... A Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination"

Laura Miller, Politician

"It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision"

Len Wein, Cartoonist

"In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it"

Major Owens, Politician

"For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first"

John Hench, Artist

"I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see"

Black Elk, Leader

"The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are"

John Dingell, Politician

"We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"You go out there and ask them what their future is today. If we don't build that today, there's nothing"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton"

Morley Safer, Journalist

"As you see, the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government"

Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman

"We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes"

Larry Niven, Writer

"First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry"

Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman

"I have seen how effective language, attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective, can change the course of history"

Frank Luntz, Politician

"We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther"

Paul Biya, Statesman

"I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country"

Paul Biya, Statesman

"I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it"

Black Elk, Leader

"Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant, yet at present necessary, dislocation"

James Larkin, Activist

"I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point"

Harold Ford, Politician

"The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized"

Kim Dae Jung, Leader

"Now I believe that people need to understand what's happening in my campaign, and they're going to get three or four snapshots of that, with plenty of time before the first disclosure happens in June"

Craig Benson, Politician

"It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world"

Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor

"The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"The decision he made with Usama bin Laden was a tactical decision. It wasn't a strategic decision. The strategic decision was made by President Bush to go after him. What President Obama has done on his watch, the issues that have come up while he's been president, he's gotten it wrong strategically every single time"

Rick Santorum, Politician

"I have always had a tremendous amount of energy, and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up"

Jim Capaldi, Musician

"They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge"

Trevor Nunn, Director

"If we can do this, then I think we can make a huge amount of progress on some of the world's hardest problems"

Sam Altman, Entrepreneur

"In a world with a lot of noise, the people who get the signal right will win"

Sam Altman, Entrepreneur

"We are bad at making long-term predictions, but we are good at identifying trends that will matter"

Sam Altman, Entrepreneur

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