Vision & Foresight Quotes

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

The best vision is insight.

The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

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

Every business needs to get out of their own mindset and into the aspirational mindsets of their customers and clients and create services and products that are beyond their customers' imagination but will be what they 'gotta have' in the future.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

An important part of leadership is being able to hold two things in your mind at once: Dealing with the reality, whatever it may be, and focus on hope for the future. Any leader helping an organization through challenges needs to be able to do both.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Understanding vision and building visual systems is really understanding intelligence.

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.

The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

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.