Stefano Pessina Quotes

I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

If we don't have a future, then we haven't got a present.

I live in the present with an eye on the future.

I've always been the sort of person who likes to look forward and live in the present.

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

I've never been a rearview mirror guy. I'm always looking forward, always looking downfield.

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 look more to the future. That's where my head is at.

Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction.

My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?

I really don't think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I'm respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I'm really looking forward.

I always looked ahead.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

I always live in the present - I love the present. I cherish the future.

Part of getting other people to focus on the future rather than being myopically focused on the present is about living that way yourself and showing that you can make choices today that are about future outcomes and still be having a great time into the present and enjoying your life.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.