Quotes About Forecasting The Future

#1. I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.

Peter Lynch

#2. Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.

Yogi Berra

#3. The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

Paul Saffo

#4. I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

Dan Quisenberry

#5. Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

Jamais Cascio

#6. A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'

Howard Rheingold

#7. It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Ritholtz

#8. 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.

Alan Greenspan

#9. In all sorts of markets - music, film, art, and politics - the future of popularity will be harder to predict as the broadcast power of radio and television democratizes and the channels of exposure grow.... The gatekeepers had their day. Now there are simply too many gates to keep.

Derek Thompson

#10. The only thing I cannot predict is the future

Amit Trivedi