Leadership & Management: Vision & Strategy Quotes

"The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend, Representative Robin Hayes, is a good example to study"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton"

John Podesta, Lawyer

"That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward"

John Podesta, Lawyer

"Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build"

Ed Miliband, Politician

"True, other countries are helping us. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources"

Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician

"This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation"

Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician

"But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely"

Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician

"I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate, those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product, if changes are needed, if we get this right"

John Anderson, Writer

"Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future"

Jay Chiat, Businessman

"I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year"

Ed Balls, Politician

"Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves"

David Vitter, Politician

"I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better"

Brian Schweitzer, Politician

"People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say, if at all possible within the context of the game, don't have two home supply centers touching each other"

Fred Davis, Celebrity

"I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction"

Alvin Williams, Athlete

"During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens, which we can expect in the future"

Dana Rohrabacher, Politician

"Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters"

Raymond Aron, Philosopher

"Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union"

Gerhard Schroder, Statesman

"I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward"

Mitchell Reiss, Diplomat

"Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe"

Gerhard Schroder, Statesman

"We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests"

Gerhard Schroder, Statesman

"So the president set out the policy guidance, and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion, so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process"

Mitchell Reiss, Diplomat

"And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want, but what they want to accomplish for themselves or their community or their family"

Lawrence Halprin, Architect

"I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes"

John Abizaid, Soldier

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