Japanese Proverb Quotes

Execution without a long term strategy leads nowhere. Likewise a long term strategy without execution leads nowhere.

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

There is something to this vision thing.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.

If you don't have a vision, nothing happens.

Success doesn't sneak up on us; it starts as a dream that we combine with a clear plan of action.

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

If the vision is not right and if the right group of players is not together, it doesn't come together.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Don't ever underestimate the power of planning. You can't make your vision come to life unless you outline each goal-driven step at a time. And you can't reach your full potential unless you plan how to make the most of your purpose and passion. When you look around and see people who are the captains of their ship, invariably they have taken pains to chart their successful course through life.

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

Resources follow vision.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

A goal without a plan is only a dream.

The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.