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To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
Sep 29, 2025
To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.
You can't do it unless you can imagine it.
A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be
A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.
Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.
In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Vision with action can change the world.
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
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