Leadership & Management: Vision & Strategy Quotes

"The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market"

Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer

"I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize, I will not support you'"

Yoweri Museveni, Politician

"I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that, of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way"

Jimmy Wales, Businessman

"The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude"

Harrison Birtwistle, Composer

"We like the size of the company today, given the environment, and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller"

Robert Iger, Businessman

"Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target"

Phil Bredesen, Politician

"You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision"

Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Celebrity

"Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being"

David Packard, Businessman

"I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words, the better"

Ron Johnson, Politician

"Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown"

Li Ka Shing, Businessman

"We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country"

Nestor Kirchner, Statesman

"Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term"

J. Irwin Miller, Businessman

"We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe"

Jose C. Orozco, Painter

"We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world"

James F. Byrnes, Politician

"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me"

Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer

"We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year"

Tom Hicks, Businessman

"Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer"

Jim Bakker, Celebrity

"My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term"

Robert Menendez, Politician

"There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas"

Paul Kagame, Statesman

"I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all"

Vernon A. Walters, Soldier

"Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century"

William Kirby, Scientist

"In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather"

Kevin J. Anderson, Author

"We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is for, but not quite so much of it"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned"

Paul Hoffman, Celebrity

"It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them"

Sidney Blumenthal, Journalist

"By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"The endorsement of respected conservative Republican officeholders and politicians is particularly important at this time, as to destroy Reagan's credibility as a loyal Republican"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them"

Steve Largent, Athlete

"These are national problems that require national solutions"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"The Democrats need to remind people of where we're, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush"

Sidney Blumenthal, Journalist

"So, I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line"

James H. Douglas, Politician

"I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time"

Kathleen Parker, Journalist

"Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure"

Matt Blunt, Politician

"The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development"

William Kirby, Scientist

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