Simon Sinek Quotes

Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.

A nation has to look ahead.

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

The most challenging thing for a young entrepreneur is to think long-term. When you are 22 years old, it’s hard to think in 22-year increments since that’s as long as you’ve been alive. But it’s really important to view your life as an entrepreneur as a long journey that consists of many short-term cycles.

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

The pace of change is so great, there is always something else going on. What that says to me is that you have to have strategic vision and peripheral vision. Strategic vision is the ability to look ahead and peripheral vision is the ability to look around, and both are important.

The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.

With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.’

I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.