Theophilus London Quotes

I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

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

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

I think you have to see two steps ahead of things. That's just the way I roll.

We need to make sure we are constantly staying ahead, thinking about what is coming.

Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.

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

Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

The long view counts.

A leader not only has to be in the center but also be in the future.

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it.