Quotes about Forecasting

Irving Fisher

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

Three days before the Great Depression Stock Market crash

Alan Kay

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

This quotation became the mantra of the MIT Media Lab's Professor Hugh Herr and others whose total efforts are spend inventing things for the future.

Winston Churchill

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

Clive Granger

A potentially useful property of forecasts based on cointegration is that when extended some way ahead, the forecasts of the two series will form a constant ratio, as is expected by some asymptotic economic theory.

Confucius

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Steve Berry

Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS

Hal Varian

A simple way to forecast the future is to look at what rich people have today; middle-income people will have something equivalent in 10 years, and poor people will have something equivalent in an additional decade.

Ross Douthat

Every year at this time I join a growing number of journalistic flagellants in enumerating things that I got wrong in the previous annum's worth of columns.

Bill Gates

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

Alan Greenspan

Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.

Lewis Mumford

Trend is not destiny.

Gary Hart

A leader not only has to be in the center but also be in the future.

Megan McArdle

Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

Mark Twain

Prediction is difficult - particularly when it involves the future.

Winston Churchill

It's the ability to foretell what will happen tomorrow, next month, and next year --- and to explain afterward why it didn't happen.

Michael Jordan

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

Nostradamus

An emperor will be born near Italy who will do his country much harm … He will rise from a soldier to the throne.

Nostradamus made thousands of prophecies most of which seem not to have occurred as he predicted. However there were a few that some people believe predicted later events. In this case, some people believe that he foretold the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Malcolm Gladwell

A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.

Winston Churchill

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

Edmund Burke

You can never plan the future by the past.

Isaac Asimov

… problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

His message is that man has to do something to produce solutions. Problems will come inevitability.

Casey Stengel

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

Michael Crichton

Any prediction of the future is certainly a lie in order to sell a position.

He does not claim that a prediction may not coincidentally turn out to be accurate—just that the predictor has no certainty whatsoever and at best was guessing and at worse manipulating.

Dean Rusk

The pace of events is moving so fast that unless we can find some way to keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today.

Forecasting Quotes