Leadership & Management: Vision & Strategy Quotes

"Without a sense of purpose, no company, either public or private, can achieve its full potential"

Larry Fink, Businessman

"It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones, and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go"

Robert Iger, Businessman

"We believe very passionately that an international approach is necessary to achieve some of these goals"

Robert Menendez, Politician

"I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history"

Joe Manchin III, Politician

"The provisions contained in this plan will ensure that the United States has the infrastructure necessary to meet energy needs through future decades, easing dependence on unpredictable foreign oil markets and creating thousands of new jobs for American workers"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres: that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that"

Susan Oliver, Actress

"Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops"

Thomas J. Watson, Scientist

"We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far, it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party"

Shirley Williams, Politician

"The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent"

Pierre Laval, Politician

"Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!'"

Joe Manchin III, Politician

"I know what we do really well - I just try and keep us focused on doing that"

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

"You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"Now we have to hit them from a different angle"

Shawn Wayans, Actor

"Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR"

Kenny Marchant, Politician

"We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State Legislature and the California Legislature around the country"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"We ought not to be looking for something spectacular, but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all"

Jeff Vandermeer, Writer

"We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt"

Jan Peter Balkenende, Statesman

"This is not an election where we hand out gifts. It is an election where we ask everyone to contribute more"

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Politician

"Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious"

Claude Chabrol, Director

"If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense"

Bruce Henderson, Businessman

"Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage"

Bruce Henderson, Businessman

"I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate"

Dennis Kucinich, Politician

"No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing, and balanced way"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you"

Bruce Henderson, Businessman

"We don't want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products"

Ron Johnson, Politician

"We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

"Politicians all too often think about the next election; Statesmen think about the next generation"

Linda Lingle, Politician

"It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal"

Pierre Laval, Politician

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