Leadership & Management: Vision & Strategy Quotes

"Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"My priority is the economic and social development of Ivory Coast. It is a process that will require the participation of all Ivorians"

Alassane Ouattara, President

"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online"

Jeff Bezos, Businessman

"The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives"

Iain Duncan Smith, Politician

"We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue"

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader

"My party is committed to a federation"

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader

"This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

"The necessary transformation of which I speak, and of which my presidency will be a part, is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing"

Charles M. Schwab, Businessman

"My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web"

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

"We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation"

James Freeman Clarke, Clergyman

"Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage"

Wilhelm Steinitz, Celebrity

"Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack"

Wilhelm Steinitz, Celebrity

"In sum, as we enter the 21st century, the Euro-Atlantic community - North America and Europe together - has to face some tough challenges when it comes to improving our capability"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"I don't measure America by its achievement, but by its potential"

Shirley Chisholm, Politician

"This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view"

Richard Rogers, Architect

"Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses"

Larry Ellison, Businessman

"You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible"

Rita Dove, Poet

"We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"My goal is to build a stronger economy, a fairer society and a better future for all Australians"

Anthony Albanese, President

"I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change"

Tim O'Reilly, Publisher

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet"

Theodore Hesburgh, Clergyman

"I have set out to change the language of the international system"

Clare Short, Politician

"People that complete other people's vision are understated"

Bjork, Musician

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