Inspiring Vision Quotes

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.

When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.

People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own aspirations and then will help them forge those aspirations into a personal vision.

I love to work with artists that were able to find a brand new name and create something really exciting and fresh.

People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, that’s what team chemistry and leadership is all about.

Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.

Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.

If you create great opportunities, people around the world will come support your dream.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.

That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

People need BHAGs - big hairy audacious goals.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.

A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.

Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.

It's necessary to know that everybody won't see it. That everybody won't join you, that everybody won't have the vision. It's necessary to know that. That a lot of people like to complain but they don't want to do anything about their situation. That you are UNCOMMON breed.

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.