Barack Obama Quotes

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

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

Now is the time to fix the next 10 years.

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

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

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

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.

When we look at policy, it's important we make sure that it's up to date and reflective of the way the world works today - and where the world is heading in the future.

Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.We're looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we've been doing.

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

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Only a fool walks into the future backwards.