Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Quotes

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.

If people aren't laughing at your dreams, your dreams aren't big enough !

Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.

Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Once an organization has a strong sense of mission, leaders can focus on trying new things.

There is something to this vision thing.

The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.

You have to have an idea of what you need to do, what needs to be fixed, what can be improved, what we should now imagine together which we didn't previously imagine. And having thought of it, decide to go it. And that's the government's role.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.

Leaders who can push themselves beyond their comfort zones and understand how to harness the power of reverse innovation have the chance to become the next great visionaries.

Elon Musk should be at the top of the list of people to emulate when it comes to leading large organizations that are highly maneuverable and use it as a competitive advantage.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

My goal is to change NXT. It is to change every company I've ever been to, and I've changed every company.

The marketplace is absolutely mercurial. But what I love about our company is that we create a vision, and then we go all in.

History is full of people with great ideas, but leaders also need to ensure their visions become reality.

I operate best on big vision and creative detail.

We never have that thought! The whole object is to bite off more than you can chew. John [Du Prez] always says, Eric thinks of something completely insane and insists we go in that direction. It's the correct way to look at things and the correct place to start, I think.

Without a vision people in leadership positions perish. You not only lose your people, you lose the person who is in a leadership position - you lose it all.