Quotes About Vision

From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have.

Radical Islamic jihadists have a long-term vision. And if they have to stay in Europe to obtain a citizenship, to ultimately travel to the United States, and if it takes them five years or ten years, they're okay with that. History has proven that.

The footballer I've admired most in the last ten years is Zinedine Zidane... one of those rare individuals who had the skill but also incredible vision.

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.

Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

The tendency among Democrats, especially after a devastating loss, is to come up with either a new individual to lead us, a new strategy, a new slogan.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

I'm an owner that tends to absolutely be supportive of a coach and his vision if it's a real sharp and smart vision. I really believe in that.

The biggest problem I see with early-stage entrepreneurs is they get the idea in their head, and they leave it in their head. And they begin embellishing it in their head, making it more ornate. They add on the second story to their dream house - then add the tennis court and the turrets and the gargoyles.

It's always good to live in future tense.

I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way, I was very drawn to tension within cinema. Hitchcock was my other early obsession - 'Psycho' and its score. So there was the sense of trying to create an atmosphere: how a sound resonates and makes an effect.

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.

The kind of investors we seek are long term because that's how we make our decisions.

Whether politicians are dealing with complex policy problems or trying to communicate with the electorate, it makes sense to establish a clear, long term narrative underpinned by forward-looking policies to deliver on its vision.

When we look at our business, we are not that concerned about short term valuations.

When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

We need to be focused in corporate America on the long term.

I think people are looking at Canada and realizing we're a place that is building for the long term and where the world's going to be.

We're much more focused on the long term than most companies.

A1 Great Britain has to look at the longer term.

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.