“Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them.”

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.

Innovation grows out of membership and a sure sense of responsibility people feel for their work and the organizations that employ them.

Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals.

In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.

The direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary.

The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don’t have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.

I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’

I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.

One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are.

Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.