Forecast Quote by Alan Greenspan Download Open image “We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.” — Alan Greenspan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forecast Pretend Really Well
Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future. — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen — Bob Farrell Copy Share Image
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day. — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
No one can escape the iron rule that once you make a forecast, you know you're going to be wrong; you just don't know… — Edgar Fiedler 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 we're going… — Charles Rangel Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Vision is the foresight or forecast or insight into the future. Vision is the picture of one's destiny or accomplishment, or simply what a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
“I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our sins are… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Dad loved computer games, and I would sit beside him for hours with graph paper, drawing out plans to try and forecast the moves… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image