67 Quotes About Visionaries

  • Author P. T. BARNUM
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    Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always ‘under the harrow’.

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  • Author Robert Baden-Powell
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    Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.

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  • Author Stan Brakhage
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    It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

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  • Author Christopher Columbus
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    Dynamic, rapidly expanding European monarchy seeks a can-do visionary to head up its South American divisions.Our ideal candidate will have at least five years' experience in New World colonization and be willing to accept shift work. Fluency in Spanish an asset.Some travel involved

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  • Author Coco Chanel
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    Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

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  • Author Gilbert K. Chesterton
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    It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

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  • Author Henry Cloud
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    Oftentimes, churches are started by an entrepreneurial church plant visionary whom everybody follows, but he's not following anybody. Even though he's "accountable to a board," he's really not. Authority's a good thing, and if it's not forced upon you as a leader, then I suggest, strongly, that you go buy some.

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  • Author James C. Collins
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    A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.

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