Keren Woodward Quotes

In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.

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

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on.

And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.

When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

One thing I've learned about his business is this whole 'plan thing' - it doesn't work.

My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.

It's a pretty intuitive process, picking the projects that I want to get involved with.