Visionary Company Quotes

#1. People think I appear on television to promote my image. That's not fair. I hate filming. I turned down 'Strictly Come Dancing.' But television is a wonderful opportunity to promote scientific ideas. 'Super Doctors' is a very thoughtful piece.

Robert Winston

#2. I'm a theorist, not an institutionalist.

Myron Scholes

#3. Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example

Walter Isaacson

#4. And so it was I entered the broken world
To trace the visionary company of love, its voice
An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled)
But not for long to hold each desperate choice.

Hart Crane

#5. Indeed, if there is any one "secret" to an enduring great company, it is the ability to manage continuity and change - a discipline that must be consciously practiced, even by the most visionary of companies.

James C. Collins

#6. Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

Tadashi Yanai

#7. To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.

James C. Collins

#8. A visionary company is one which is seen growing in a consistent pattern by being goal oriented driven by a vision and a mission

Henrietta Newton Martin

#9. We don't have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where's the classic pop-rock showman?

Adam Lambert

#10. Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.

Jack Welch

#11. Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

James C. Collins

#12. Comfort is not the objective in a visionary company. Indeed, visionary companies install powerful mechanisms to create /dis/comfort
to obliterate complacency
and thereby stimulate change and improvement /before/ the external world demands it.

James C. Collins

#13. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.

James C. Collins

#14. Today we tell girls to grow up to be or do whatever they want. But the cultural pressure to become a mother remains very strong; rare is she who doesn't at least occasionally succumb to the nagging fear that if she remains childless, she'll live to regret it.

Kate Bolick

#15. A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.

Carl Icahn

#16. Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.

Paul Graham

#17. The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.

Nathan Myhrvold

#18. You make decisions and decisions will make you.

Lester Sumrall

#19. When you start positively changing your mind ... you will start positively changing your life.

Timothy Pina

#20. One of the most important steps you can take in building a visionary company is not an action, but a shift in perspective.

James C. Collins

#21. I'd love to play a femme fatale. And I wouldn't mind working with George Clooney.

Laurie Holden