Quotes About Vision

Our world desperately needs real leadership.

Innovators reimagine our world in so many areas. We need them to help reimagine what government can and should be.

In order to be stimulated or moved in the future, we probably have to go into space and look at our world from there.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Taking the time to identify and infuse values certainly does affect outcomes and is one of the most important things to get right as the CEO.

If you see culture, to my mind it is something you need to consciously have to create. It's not like a box, where you put some input and you will get some output. In my view, it begins with the mission, vision and values.

One of the reasons I work with technology the way I do is that I can really be assured that the vision I have from the outset is what will be at the end. And that that vision isn't altered through the process.

Someone who directs a film, they have to see the overall picture, and they have to get the best performances out of the actors.

You have to have an overall vision of how you want people to see you.

Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.

Look several months ahead, see where the obstacles lie, and figure out ways to overcome them.

I don't have a directorial overview, which sometimes is very helpful.

If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change. When there is defining vision, the only way the organization can define itself is its stasis.

If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change. When there is no defining vision, the only way the organization can define itself is its stasis. Like the human creature that fights wildly to resist changing whatever it considers its identity, the corporate organism without vision will hold on to stasis as its only meaningful definition of self.

There is probably no job on earth for which an ability to believe six impossible things before breakfast is more of a requirement than software project management.

Meaningful acts of leadership usually cause people to accept some short-term pain (extra cost or effort, delayed gratification) in order to increase the long-term benefit. We need leadership for this, because we all tend to be short-term thinkers.

in the best organizations, the short term is not the only thing that matters. What matters more is being best. And that's a long-term concept.

The conviction that God was a warrior bound by a timeless covenant to the defence of a particular people was one that he had abandoned after his first vision of Christ. It was a new covenant that he had preached. The Son of God, by becoming mortal, had redeemed all humanity. Not as a leader of armies, not as the conqueror of Caesars, but as a victim the Messiah had come. The message was as novel as it was shocking—and was to prove well suited to an age of trauma.

You are and will become that which you think about most of the time.

It's about the possibility, or otherwise, of meaning in the world. And the possibility, or otherwise, of writing. And the possibility, or otherwise, of the resolution of everything into some coherent, cogent vision.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

Saddle your dreams before you ride them.

Only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.