Frans Timmermans Quotes

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.

We need to make sure we are constantly staying ahead, thinking about what is coming.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

A leader not only has to be in the center but also be in the future.

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.

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

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

I think we need ideas for the future.

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

Luxembourg has always been a country that has tried to reinvent its own future.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

In a business, you've got to move on.

There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.

It's so important to adapt, think outside the box, and stay ahead if you want to grow.

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.

One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.