Harper Reed Quotes

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

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

In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.

The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.

People are the key to success or extraordinary success.

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.

In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Without a vision, you just do what everybody else does and you are just there.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

You give a good leader very little and he will succeed; you give mediocrity a great deal and he will fail.

Leadership does matter.

A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

You can't do anything successfully in life without leadership.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

All successful captains in the world have had long-term roles to make a difference.

I want to do everything and beyond. I want to create impact.