Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

When we look at policy, it's important we make sure that it's up to date and reflective of the way the world works today - and where the world is heading in the future.

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.

We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.

The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

The problem in any constitutional change is the great care put to solve the problems of the past instead of grasping those of the future.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing what's next and not following the trend of what's now.

Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

A nation has to look ahead.

A liberal is a person who kept an open mind … a person who did not always look backward but would look forward to new possible solutions.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

Let's all strive to be more entrepreneurial, and I think we'll all be in a better place.

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.

I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.

We are never complacent. My job is to make us look 10 years out and be prepared.

I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.'

A confident and forward-looking nation is built by confident and forward-looking young people.