Fritz Zwicky Quotes

For a firm to be exceptional, it has to be led by purpose. Our purpose is to make an impact that matters.

We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

I've got a long-term plan.

One of the things that has really hit home for me is that the world is how we decide it is going to be. Very few things just happen. They grow out of history, and they grow out of the present, and the more we can get a sense of how our actions lead into other actions in the future, hopefully we'll learn to make better decisions.

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

What motivates me is the conviction that our problems are mainly a consequence of a lack of holistic understanding of the man-made system in which we are entwined.

I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

Our future is our sense of common destiny.

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.

The long view counts.

A nation has to look ahead.

The community … is the world in miniature. If we encourage children to observe directly the complex relations between the people and the land, between nature and society, they will grasp the reality of their homes, their school, the town, village or city, and will be able to understand the wider world.

I beseech you to live not only for this age, but for the next also.

For too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

I think the point of our country, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point.

We must reflect on the kind of country that we want to build and the kind of society which we are choosing to pass on to our children.

I think long-term, not short-term.

Responsible global behaviour is ultimately an act of self-preservation of, by, and for the global beast that modern technological humanity has become.

We have to learn to become a new kind of entity on this world that has the maturity and the awareness to handle being a global species with the power to change our planet and use that power in a way that is conducive to the kind of global society we want to have.