Quotes on Visionary Leaders

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.

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

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.