Thaksin Shinawatra Quotes

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

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

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

Ideas are cheap. The difficult part is finding the team to execute them.

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

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

Settle all things, both great and small, by consultation. Without prior consultation, take no important step.

Don't wait for someone to tell you what to do. Develop an innovative solution and work as a team to make it happen.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

You can be stuck for two weeks on a problem, and then you get the right couple of people in a room, and in five minutes, you get a great answer.

It's important to keep your long term perspective and communicate well both externally and internally.

Being able to chuck ideas around and bounce ideas off each other with anyone I'm working with is just something I love to do, that's how most of these ideas are formed.

It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it.

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

Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

If the players understand and accept that their leader is steering their direction through thoughtful, careful measures, then they will pull together to give the best effort every time.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.