Quotes About Vision

My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.

The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.

We must well grow the valuable seeds, which the great Comrade Kim Jong Il sowed to build an economically powerful state and improve the people's livelihood, and lead them to bloom as a glorious reality.

The most valuable thing in culture is to find something first - so everyone is always looking.

I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.

We don't really look at the stock, you know? Because for us, it's about the long term. And so we're very much focused on long-term shareholder value but not the short-term kind of stuff.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present - and that's not fully valued.

With the right people, culture, and values, you can accomplish great things.

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

leaders sometimes make a difference. But it depends on the type of leader, and on the type of effect examined.

That would be the last thing Professor Hopkins saw on the pier that night.

Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.

Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy

Strive for the Long Now

Everyone needs dreams,' she said simply. 'If you don't have them, they can't come true.

Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own.

extraordinary; I could almost see the Cambrian Mountains

Chromatacia…society…ruled by a colortocracy…social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.

saw a vision of the world and all the options there could be!

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

People are silently begging to be led.

An endless number of these unmade connections exist to this day, especially in the business world. You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence, and success. The problem is, you just don't see them. I