Visionary Leadership Quotes

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

It’s not the man; it’s the plan.

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr.

Begin with the end in mind.

Elon Musk is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur, having come up with, or been at the founding team of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, PayPal, all different industries that seem to have nothing to do with each other.

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed.

All good Presidents are supple.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas.

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

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.

When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the most critical moments of our history, he met that moment with courage and vision. His farsighted leadership in the postwar era has helped ever since to preserve peace and freedom in the world.

Without a vision people in leadership positions perish. You not only lose your people, you lose the person who is in a leadership position - you lose it all.

David Stern is the mastermind behind a lot of stuff, he controls a lot of stuff, he dictates a lot of stuff so he's going to make himself look good.

Successful reform requires a long-term vision, driven by political leadership.

While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan ten or one hundred years into the future. In doing so, we must not resort to superficial measures. Instead, it is imperative to engage in true reforms that ascertain the state of society we seek to achieve.

A great leader has brains, vision, soul, values and a heart.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.