Joe Sestak Quotes

Keep your eye on the prize and focus on your mission. Remember what you’re trying to do, what your value is, why it’s important, and at the same time, change course and direction. If the market’s telling you different things how are you going to adjust to that?

I think one key part of doing more with less is to be more strategic, to realize what the objectives you're truly trying to accomplish are and then to drive with greater focus towards those objectives.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.

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.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only do one thing, what would it be? And you can't rationalize the answer, and you can't attach the one thing to some other things. It's just the one thing.

I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view.

I always feel that the best kind of producing - and frankly, it has to do with what I like to do - is you're the big-picture person.

You can never... any job you do, you can never think about the bigger picture.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.

It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.

As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You've dreamed of the 'right' ones, you've projected 'real' ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you've imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you've set.

Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor.

I think we need ideas for the future.

Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.

Managing through ambiguity can be difficult for even the most experienced leaders. Defining a clear set of goals for your team demonstrates that there is an end in sight. However, it's crucial during this time to move through the transition in phases.

Coaching was something I've never had much interest in. I've always been a big-picture guy, like a manager has to be.

Many who know me or have worked for me are aware of my penchant for strategic planning. I consider it a critical component of the success of any organization and believe in the value of planning for a company's needs over multiple time horizons, as well as reviews against that plan at regular intervals.

What you have to have is very smart, motivated, dedicated, and focused engineers and focus them on the right goal.

I think people know that I've got things in my mind that I want to do and things I wanted to change in time. I can't do it all overnight.

At the end of the day, you want to do what's best for your organization, present and future.

The marketplace is absolutely mercurial. But what I love about our company is that we create a vision, and then we go all in.