Tony Blair Quotes

When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.

Politics is about moving forward, looking forward.

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

Once an organization has a strong sense of mission, leaders can focus on trying new things.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

A nation has to look ahead.

Take actions that will give people hope.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Ladies and gentlemen, there are moments in the lives of nations and peoples when it is incumbent upon those known for their wisdom and clarity of vision to survey the problem, with all its complexities and vain memories, in a bold drive towards new horizons.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Great measures are always rested on small precedents.

A government may not waver; once it has chosen its course, it must, without looking to right or left, thenceforth go forward.

Change is realized by men who take the next step; not those who theorize about the 20th step.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries.

I'm not going to be the one who turns out the last lights of the last conglomerate. So we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.

No matter what business you are in, there is change, and it's happening pretty quickly.

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.