Peter Diamandis Quotes

As long as there's a vision with the club, and we're not stale, we're going forward as a club.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

As the leader, you're empowering talent. Once you've given the direction, it's a joy to see it put into action, to see people on every level of the company carrying out the strategy.

A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.

If the vision is not right and if the right group of players is not together, it doesn't come together.

History is full of people with great ideas, but leaders also need to ensure their visions become reality.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

I think if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to dream big and then dream bigger.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.