Erin O'Toole Quotes

The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.

Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

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

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed.

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

I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

The advice I tell students is to think about the big problems. I mean, work on anything you can work on where you can make progress. But always keep in mind the big problems.

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

Governing is about making tough decisions, but it's also about figuring out a better way to do things.

Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.

Leaders have to see past problems to solutions, and my mother excelled at just that.

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.

Look several months ahead, see where the obstacles lie, and figure out ways to overcome them.

We've got to be innovative. We've got to think about what's coming next.

Other people need to be forward thinkers. Not just basketball players. Not just people in the sports world. But people in general.

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

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.

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

We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.