Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

Predicting the future is very difficult. As a historian I have trouble trying to predict the past.

Ere we can forecast the future we must understand the present and bring a just sense of proportion to our review of the history of the past.

People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

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

While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

History is the best guide to the future.

I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

The future is unknowable, but the past may give us hope.

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

The further backward we look, the further forward we are likely to see.

Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

I've said many times that I'm not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, 'If I do this, what will happen.'