Bashir Assad Quotes

I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.

I've got a long-term plan.

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

We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming.

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.

When you have a good vision and a very large capability of impact, that's very powerful.

I don't usually paint a big picture on what I'll do in the future.

Success doesn't sneak up on us; it starts as a dream that we combine with a clear plan of action.

Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

big plans require big action

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

Have a vision; but it's not enough to have a vision, you have to communicate that vision to others. You have to communicate it to people who work with you and for you. You have to communicate it to the world leaders with whom you come in touch.

Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.