Skitch Henderson Quotes

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

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

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

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

I understand that fans think short-term, and there's nothing wrong with that. You live or you die in the short term. But I believe in our system, and when you do that, you don't make knee-jerk decisions.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

Now is the time to fix the next 10 years.

I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.

Begin with the end in mind.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.

It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.

In order to have your short term policies accepted, you have to have your long term policies understood.