Garry Kasparov Quotes

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

I was always trying to stay one to two steps ahead of the game.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

I know I made plenty of mistakes in my tenure. But one of the things that you learn is to be very careful and to protect yourself down the road a little bit, which is to say you've got to think ahead and think where is the story going to go? What are all the possible outcomes? And how do I protect the president from unexpected twists and turns in the road?

It is better to anticipate than to react.

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

Think ahead. Golf is a next-shot game.

Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.