Leadership & Management: Vision & Strategy Quotes

"We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you"

Mike Rounds, Politician

"Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present"

Bob Ney, Politician

"Something new has happened: For the first time in German history, our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland"

Walter Ulbricht, Politician

"Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights"

Walter Ulbricht, Politician

"Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe, and his efforts, more than those of any other single man, helped change the thinking of European leaders"

Paul Hoffman, Celebrity

"But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics"

Jonathan Coe, Novelist

"Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"When you're doing that, you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production"

Paul Hawken, Environmentalist

"The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past"

Matt Blunt, Politician

"Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road, and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side, and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. That's why we won so big in 1994!"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of Europe in four years; that whatever was to be accomplished had to be accomplished in that period of time"

Paul Hoffman, Celebrity

"Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"The only limits are, as always, those of vision"

James Broughton, Director

"There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"We, the people of the United States, we are a great nation with a great vision"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out, but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built"

Gray Davis, Politician

"In the past, ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news, and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong"

Jeff Sessions, Politician

"From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America"

Barbara Olson, Journalist

"The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over"

Mike Rounds, Politician

"We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today"

Gray Davis, Politician

"I had hoped to hear the President tonight tell the Congress and the American people exactly how he plans to tackle some of the important issues facing this country. Unfortunately I did not"

Frank Lautenberg, Politician

"The President, the Administration and the campaign need a theme. I am concerned that the President is seen as a tactician without an overall strategy of his plan for the country"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government"

Charles Edison, Businessman

"Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure"

George Crumb, Composer

"I've said for a long time, clearly the - a, a critical key to success in the region is going to be Pakistan and our relationship with Pakistan, which was one that was broken in the late '80s and which we've worked hard to restore"

Michael Mullen, Soldier

"If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system"

Bob Taft, Politician

"So to that extent, that was a very sharp reminder, a few months out from the election, that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted, if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues"

Jim Bolger, Statesman

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