Leadership & Management: Vision & Strategy Quotes

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"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision"

Ayn Rand, Writer

Ayn Rand

"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

Henry A. Kissinger

"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

Henry A. Kissinger

"Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

Mark Zuckerberg

"There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

Mark Zuckerberg

"There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness"

Michael Porter, Educator

Michael Porter

"The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change"

Michael Porter, Educator

Michael Porter

"So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving"

Michael Porter, Educator

Michael Porter

"If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful"

Michael Porter, Educator

Michael Porter

"A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique"

Michael Porter, Educator

Michael Porter

"The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future"

Joel A. Barker, Author

Joel A. Barker

"Republicans are men of narrow vision who are afraid of the future"

Jimmy Carter, President

Jimmy Carter

"We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

Theodor Herzl

"Capital isn't scarce; vision is"

Sam Walton, Businessman

Sam Walton

"These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess"

Kobe Bryant, Athlete

Kobe Bryant

"He who commands the sea has command of everything"

Themistocles, Soldier

Themistocles

"Details create the big picture"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

Sanford I. Weill

"I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership"

Jeff Miller, Politician

Jeff Miller

"Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility"

Bernard Law Montgomery, Soldier

"But in practice, master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community"

Christopher Alexander, Architect

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible"

John Shadegg, Politician

"In life, as in chess, forethought wins"

Charles Buxton, Public Servant

"I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people"

Carol Moseley Braun, Politician

"Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist"

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Businesswoman

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

"One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure"

Sarojini Naidu, Politician

"A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more"

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Businesswoman

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength"

Adam Schiff, Politician

Adam Schiff

"The European Green Deal is our new growth strategy"

Ursula von der Leyen, Politician

Ursula von der Leyen

"My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"Only the paranoid survive"

Andy Grove, Businessman

Andy Grove

"We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot"

Arthur Blank, Businessman

"When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this"

Townsend Harris, Businessman

"Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces, but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution"

Bill Hybels, Clergyman

"And it seems to me, in that experience may lie, at least some of the clues for policy development, perhaps constitutional changes as well, that Labour will need to make at the national level too"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? - By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for"

John McDonald, Leader

"Our current energy policy is bankrupt"

Jim Costa, Politician

"My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA"

Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman

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