Quotes About Making Predictions

#1. Making predictions is like throwing a dartboard at the fixture list

Mike Parry

#2. Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is forecasting, as is selling a stock for no apparent reason. Indeed, nearly all capital decisions made by most people are unconscious predictions.

Barry Ritholtz

#3. most importantly, this prediction is less of a prophecy and more a way of discussing our present choices. If the discussion makes us choose differently, so that the prediction is proven wrong, all the better. What's the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything?

Yuval Noah Harari

#4. Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.

Yogi Berra

#5. To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

Nate Silver

#6. In making these predictions, I have had the invaluable assistance of scientists who graciously allowed me to interview them, broadcast their ideas on national radio, and even take a TV crew into their laboratories.

Michio Kaku

#7. Was it - was she making a real prediction?'
Dumbledore looked mildly impressed.
'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have been,' he said thoughtfully. 'Who'd have thought it? That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay raise ...

J.K. Rowling

#8. I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.

David Plouffe

#9. Data Products are self-adapting, broadly applicable economic engines that derive their value from data and generate more data by influencing human behavior or by making inferences or predictions upon new data.

Benjamin Bengfort

#10. Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.

Brian Schmidt

#11. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Arnold Palmer

#12. You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction

Bill Gurley

#13. Fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all.

Hiromu Arakawa

#14. Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.

Dmitry Medvedev

#15. The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much.

Charlie Munger

#16. Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it.

Charlie Munger

#17. One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.

William J. Clinton

#18. There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#19. Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

Bill Gaede

#20. Like backstage, I just peed like every 3 seconds. I think yur staff thinks I have diarrhea.

Jennifer Lawrence

#21. For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance, of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.

Nostradamus

#22. My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

George Soros

#23. The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.

Nate Silver

#24. And I love writing. I've always loved writing.

James Daly

#25. A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

D.R. Silva

#26. I'm not keen on making predictions.

Andrew Flintoff