It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen — Bob Farrell Copy Share Image
The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts. — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course — Larry David Copy Share Image
Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“forecast key events, but it’s unlikely to be the same people consistently. The sum of this discussion suggests that, on balance, forecasts… — Howard Marks Copy Share Image
Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the… — Dean Williams Copy Share Image
The IEA forecasts that production from oilfields, which have started production up to 2011, will nearly drop two-thirds by 2035. — Peter Voser Copy Share Image
It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what… — Charles Rangel Copy Share Image
Dont tell me dreams, or expectations, or forecasts. Just tell me the facts, and the truth. I want to know exactly where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes ... — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
“The Americans have perfected weather forecasts: a model presents a model of the Earth, a map, and jabs at it with her… — Péter Zilahy Copy Share Image
At the moment we are facing a whole collection of difficult to forecast developments from the situation in China and the oil-price… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship,… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Meteorologists have the right perspective. They ground themselves in the current conditions (today’s highs/lows). They briefly acknowledge significant events of the past… — Clifton Anderson Copy Share Image
All decisions originate in the brain. So if we can better understand what's happening in the brain when we make investment decisions,… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Satellite photography in the 1970's gave rise to the long-range weather forecast, a month at a time. This in turn gave rise… — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
"(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy,… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25… — Matthew Simmons Copy Share Image
We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
I once read about a meeting of economists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, that was considered… — Gerald M. Loeb Copy Share Image
I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future. — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
