Joe Gebbia Quotes

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.

Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.

I have never been one to look beyond today.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

Every director works differently.

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.

As a director, I love being able to really be a contributing factor to the overall vision of a project.

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

When there's a clear vision, and you've got the creative teams working toward that goal, each on their own, it can then come together quite elegantly at the endpoint.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function - trying to put things together and make things happen.

We don't really talk about our future plans. But we, at the same time, try to build things that our users ask us for.

I always feel that the best kind of producing - and frankly, it has to do with what I like to do - is you're the big-picture person.

I want to have bosses around me, 'cause at the end of the day, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, you want to make relationships to keep 'em, you know what I'm saying. So I make my relationships to keep 'em - all my relationships - not try to burn bridges that you may need to cross over one day.

I think we need ideas for the future.

Every director has their own unique working style.

Good policies need to come with good visions.

I operate best on big vision and creative detail.

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result.