Simon Sinek Quotes

One should be constantly looking for the broader vision.

It's the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot from the hip on a decision based on winning over a 10-game period. No, that doesn't make sense.

The long view counts.

I think long-term, not short-term.

I look at everything from 100,000 feet.

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

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.

We're so used to thinking in the short term, and the minute you speak in more long-term language then you tend to get dismissed as utopian and so on. We have a real problem here in making long-term thinking respectable

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'm not a futurist, so I don't spend a lot of time thinking about 20 years from now.

As a director, you realise the bigger picture.

I think it's really important to have a long-term perspective.

I don't do anything unless I think about it six months in advance.

It's always important for a coach to decide on the short term and long term - one factor doesn't block out the other.

Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.

It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones

I've always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

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

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.