Leadership Foresight Quotes

#1. From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden venom, as I have already observed respecting hectic fever. Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#2. A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed only to be admired passively, like a stamp collection. A wine list is good only when it functions well in tandem with a menu.

Gerald Asher

#3. The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

Dave Zirin

#4. All the progress in science can't be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses - to smell trouble or just something fishy.

Pawan Mishra

#5. I'm sorry," I said. I felt unbearably ashamed. "I'm sorry." "What for?" "For being a blind, self-satisfied ass. For not seeing . . .

Sergei Lukyanenko

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

Jack Ma

#7. I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.

Christine McVie

#8. I came here for a party and what do I get? Nothing. Not even Ice cream.

Groucho Marx

#9. Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

Robert Louis Stevenson

#10. Up to 700 A.D., it was assumed that the Christian family cared for their own dead. The clergy played little role in burial and none whatsoever in the arrangement and decoration of tombs.

Peter R.L. Brown

#11. The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

Walt Whitman

#12. Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.

Tom Clancy

#13. The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

Les Brown

#14. Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

Paul Gibbons

#15. Every few months, I find myself in Europe or the Middle East.

Reem Acra

#16. I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later.

Stephin Merritt

#17. You take my imperfections and you love them divine.

Ellis

#18. He gives no best who gives most; but he gives most who gives best. ~Arthur Warwick

Jack Canfield