Phil Bredesen Quotes

I've never played someone where I felt it was beneficial to build from the outside in.

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

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing what's next and not following the trend of what's now.

A challenge always is good. Normal design does not come under the constraints of a small budget and time frame. But it has helped me to make quick and knowledgeable decisions.

One pursues economic theory in too extreme an extent he is likely to be in trouble; you have to consider the reality and blend what you observe as reality with an ingredient of theory, and a little, just a little bit ahead of the time, then you are likely to succeed.

If you ask anybody at Microsoft, could they spend more money, all of them would say yes. They should say that! They should say, 'Yes, I have so many terrific innovative, interesting, awesomely impactful ideas that you have to get me more money.' I love that. I love that energy, and I listen to some really fascinating arguments.

One of the things I love about Fox News is that it looks at something and tries to figure out how it can be useful in the journey and bring everybody else along and lead the way.

My style is to be collaborative, progressive, to look at things that seem a little bit impossible.

I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

We have to be about finding long-term solutions to our biggest challenges.

Today, we should look for people with great organizational skills to run a government - not just leaders, who are good with people.

It's a lot easier to figure out how to scale something that doesn't feel like it would scale than it is to figure out what is actually gonna work. You're much better off going after something that will work that doesn't scale, then trying to figure how to scale it up, than you are trying to figure it all out.

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

I believe we need new leadership to put the partisan gridlock behind us, and I promised my constituents I would vote for new leadership.

I'm always investing and building things at the same time.

I don't think it is ever enough for a governing majority to simply be opposed to things. We have to be for things.

You can be both progressive and want to get things done - they're not mutually exclusive and that's what I bring.

Luxembourg has always been a country that has tried to reinvent its own future.

For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.