Helmut Kohl Quotes

Without an identity, you cannot plan and you cannot convince a player to do what you want.

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

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.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.

Leaders set a very clear path every day, in a thousand different ways, of what the people must attend to, inhibit, and keep it current in front of them.

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

I just want to be a leader.

I've always tried to be a leader.

I'm a leader.

If you don't have a vision, nothing happens.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

I am and always will be a leader.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.