Leadership & Management: Vision & Strategy Quotes

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"The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership"

Louis Gerstner, Businessman

Louis Gerstner

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it"

Alan Kay, Scientist

Alan Kay

"You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"First gain the victory, and then make the best use of it you can"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

Horatio Nelson

"We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America"

George H. W. Bush, President

George H. W. Bush

"The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

Hillary Clinton

"I think it's important to have a future that is inspiring and appealing"

Elon Musk, Businessman

Elon Musk

"When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority"

Charles R. Swindoll, Clergyman

Charles R. Swindoll

"I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

Christopher Dodd

"Everything we did, we were setting the tone for the world"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

Steve Wozniak

"But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect"

James Carville, Lawyer

"Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China"

John Howard, Statesman

"You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing and using a timing which the enemy does not expect"

Miyamoto Musashi, Soldier

"Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

Paul Gauguin

"As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy"

Al Gore, Vice President

Al Gore

"We are constantly adapting to the challenges we face. Our goal is a strong NATO, fit for the future and capable of addressing a wide range of threats"

Jens Stoltenberg, Politician

Jens Stoltenberg

"Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going"

Phil Crosby, Author

"The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong"

John Bruton, Politician

John Bruton

"Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion"

Stephen Harper, Politician

Stephen Harper

"What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is, it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it"

Stephen Harper, Politician

Stephen Harper

"We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise, but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign"

Stephen Harper, Politician

Stephen Harper

"Our aims are absolutely clear: they are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life"

Vladimir Putin, President

Vladimir Putin

"Wishing, of all strategies, is the worst"

Andrew Young, Clergyman

"Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, Politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"I think that the EU, with the Lisbon agenda, has put the right emphasis on growth and employment"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to do with markets regaining confidence in Europe and that have a lot to do with reducing debt"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"As politicians, we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

Francis Ford Coppola

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