Bill Clinton Quotes

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

In a business, you've got to move on.

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

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.

Creatively, I try to always look forward and look at the next thing I want to do.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

The problem in any constitutional change is the great care put to solve the problems of the past instead of grasping those of the future.

In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.

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.

I think we need ideas for the future.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

We're really at this point where we can take a step back and think about the next big things that we want to do.

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

I don't really do without any plans. If somebody is trying to do something, you must have plans.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.