Quotes About Vision

I have seen a lot of now-great companies at their earliest stages, and these early-stage startups are not built by the senior people who know how to run and scale big-company machines.

Early-stage startups are all about the founders and team.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

With fresh eyes, an aggressive approach, and collaboration, we can modernize state government the way it should be.

If they're committed to the mission statement of the RSC, they're going to be happy with me as their chair. If they're committed to another vision, then they may not be happy with me.

When I posted the 8,500 words on what Twitter should be, I wanted to make clear this wasn't a vision statement for the future. What was so frustrating about it is that's what it should've been already.

I started at HSN in May of 2006, and by October, we had rolled out a new brand image, a new tagline, a new vision statement, a new customer manifesto, and new advertising.

All my films are statements, especially when I write them.

There are too many politicians in the world and too few statesmen.

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we've quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

I'm never satisfied with status quo, and a desire to make a difference is what drives me.

Stay focused on the mission.

Starting a business and building a product are not for the faint of heart. You have to learn to not let little disappointments get you down and to stay focused on the big picture.

As a designer, I think you just have to make sure you know what you want and stay true to it. You need to have conviction and really just want to make people think in regards to doing interesting things.

Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision.

With my own comics, I try hard to get the vision in my head onto paper, to have one match the other as closely as possible. With the 'Airbender' comics, I'm working with someone else's vision, an already-established vision. I want to stay true to what's come before.

People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them - I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

Over 10 years, MindTree has been ahead of most IT companies on operating and financial metrics. We have stayed true to our long-term vision and have not been buffeted by short-term.