forward-thinking leadership Quotes

Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it.

We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God.

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

Leadership is about creating new realities.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public does not fully understand the world into which it is going. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Those leaders who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment.

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

White men have screwed this country up! I would like a black, female…. everything all rolled into one.I want something different. I want a real change. People, I want a president who speaks well, who has a sense of humor. This guy is such a moron! It's beyond the point where it's a joke. He's an idiot.

A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.

I'm closer to anybody who believes that we should lead not from behind, but from the front. Rand Paul is one step behind, leading from behind. So, yes, even [Barack] Obama is more aggressive. Obama believes you can kill Anwar al-Awlaki without getting a court order.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.

Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.

Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.

We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.

If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.

If Margaret Thatcher were running for president today we wouldn't have focus groups and we wouldn't have one day focusing on 'change' and the next day focusing on likability. If Margaret Thatcher were campaigning, we would be treated to a smorgasbord of great ideas, proposals for the future of the country. Nobody would even be thinking about that.

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?

All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions of the past--men who are not blinded by the old fears and hates and rivalries-- young men who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions.

Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future or you’re not ready to articulate it.

Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.