Edward de Bono Quotes

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

One problem with Washington is that we are all historians and not futurists.

The visionaries of yesterday are the realists of today.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

My government's aim for Fiji is not to return to where we once were but to journey forward together to a place we have not yet been

See things not as they are but as they might be.

Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done; they look forward to create a better future.

We've got to be innovative. We've got to think about what's coming next.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

I'm always interested in what's next or what is the new kind of thinking.

If you don't have a vision you're going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you've already seen.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

Italy will start the future. Because in the last 20, 20 years, Italy discussed only about the past. "Oh, the past is wonderful in Italy." Look, look Palazzo Vecchio. The most beautiful place in the world, in my opinion, I think this is incredible place. But the past is not sufficient. Is not enough. We need the future. Because we are Italians. And Italy is not only a museum.

Always challenge the old ways.

You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

We must dare to invent the future

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.