William McDonough Quotes

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.

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

A great politician has to bother himself less with means than with goals.

President [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt always had a wider point of view, of necessity, than I did.

I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view.

I think we need ideas for the future.

You can get so focused on a strategy and making it work that you lose sight of your larger mission.

As far as business moguls, I'm always a fan of how Jay Z moves. He was just always very strategic ever since he came into the game.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade!

Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever.

For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent's strengths and weaknesses; thirdly, a higher aim than momentary satisfaction. I see this aim as being scientific and artistic achievements, which place the game of chess on a par with other arts.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

I play chess about four hours a day in training camp. You have to decide what move to use, or what combination of moves. I think less when I box because the reaction time is a lot quicker, but some people call me the chess boxer because they say I think too much in the ring. I take my time and they don't see the action they want. Some boxers just go in there and just throw punches and hope to win.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his

Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.

Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.

If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.

This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.

I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.