Nancy Duarte Quotes

If you are not able to transmit what you're trying to achieve to your collaborators, you will only have minions - or morons.

What I've learned is the power of a compelling vision.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

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

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

Leaders create a sense of urgency. And along with that you have to create a sense of hope and a direction.

To be a leader is to be awake and dissatisfied at all times. Leadership is action. Leadership is influence

The biggest thing is to overcommunicate your vision. It's so important to have real clarity as to what is inside your head, and sometimes that's really terrifying for people.

As long as there's a vision with the club, and we're not stale, we're going forward as a club.

You have to be sort of an emotional steward to really get a business to do something hard - to take people up the hill, to conquer the mountain, to sack the city. You have got to be a maniac.

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

The ability to have influence and create change and drive the strategy of an organization is really what excites me.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.

I want to inspire people.

In this work, you have to convince everyone all the time, at different levels, to support your dream. I learned you have to be confident in order to do that.

There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.

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.