Shared Vision Quotes

Our shared vision of belonging is the thread that weaves through every touchpoint on Airbnb.

If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do.

In winning companies, everybody pulls in the same direction.

Ultimately, the team has to come first even though we all have individual goals and preferences.

There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.

It's an incredible opportunity to work alongside my father. We have the same ambitions, the same vision.

People here were willing to assume minor roles for the sake of a common enterprise. This spirit of teamwork must have been characteristic of the 19th century and was what made great industrial empires possible.]

We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader - the common purpose. The best executives put this common purpose clearly before their group. While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others, the ability to make purpose articulate. And then that common purpose becomes the leader.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

I campaigned on being a collaborative leader.

If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine.

I had always told my father that before working with him in the same frame as an actor, which I was petrified to do, I wanted to learn from him, so I had pleaded with him for two years before he agreed to write and direct 'Mausam.' It was our dream project and a wonderful opportunity for us to work as a family.

It's hard to be successful over the long term if you're not unified and there's not that synergy between coach and front office.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

When it comes to being in a band or going solo, one is collaborative, and one is not. But generally speaking, when going solo, I am the boss. People can contribute ideas, but I am the boss. When collaborating, you make compromises and look for a common ground.

Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation.

When you are trying to move mountains you want-and need-people on your side who want to move them with you.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.

Before a vision (dream) can become a reality, it must be owned by every member of the group.

No nation can stand against a wold united.

To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

Your cities can be saved or squandered in one generation. So let's agree to set aside our philosophical disagreements and focus on those aspirations that unite us. Let's grasp the opportunity that is presented by innovation to build better communities for our neighbors. Let's replace a focus on partisan division with a focus on results. That is the path to a better future for us all.