"Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing,……" — Barry Ritholtz

More Forecasting Quotes

This quote is filed under Forecasting Quotes, one of 31 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often… — Unknown Author
• Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But… — James Surowiecki
• Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And… — Bill Nye
• Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting… — John Maynard Keynes
• The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession. — Ben Bernanke
• The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress. — Nate Silver
• The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to… — Paul Saffo
• I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in… — Peter Cundill
• I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work. — Peter Lynch
• If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in… — Benjamin Graham
• Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits. — Piers Corbyn
• Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind.… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker

See all 31 Forecasting Quotes »