Lester R. Bittel Quotes

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

One man of tolerable Abilities may work great Changes, and accomplish great Affairs among Mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and … makes the execution of that same plan his sole Study and Business.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Strategy must dominate tactics, not the other way around.

The 6 Ps: Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance

You have to have an idea of what you need to do, what needs to be fixed, what can be improved, what we should now imagine together which we didn't previously imagine. And having thought of it, decide to go it. And that's the government's role.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

You can't do anything successfully in life without leadership.

Decision making is always top of the tree when it comes to the big football clubs and where it takes you.

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.

The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

No wishes are silly, no dreams remain dreams, for those committed to clear and definitive goals.