Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.

We need to make sure we are constantly staying ahead, thinking about what is coming.

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.

The earlier you start to solve a problem, the less draconian the solution needs to be.

I live in the present with an eye on the future.

Planning means looking ahead.

I was always trying to stay one to two steps ahead of the game.

We are never complacent. My job is to make us look 10 years out and be prepared.

We're always skating to wherever the puck is going.

We can end cancer as we know it.

We need to be able to answer not yesterday's challenges but to tomorrow's challenges.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You have to think, "Here's what other people and companies have done under certain circumstances. Now, under these new circumstances, how is this management likely to behave?"

Losers react,leaders anticipate.

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.