Forecasting Quote by Barry Ritholtz

If you have to forecast, forecast often..

— Edgar Fiedler

Forecasting is a maddening occupation. It is always fascinating and exciting and rewarding. yet it is also regularly exasperating and infuriating, occasionally even deranging.

— Edgar Fiedler

It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.

— Benjamin Graham

Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.

— Edgar Fiedler

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Yogi Berra

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

— Paul Saffo

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.

— Sylvia Porter

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

— Barry Ritholtz

Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future

— Fred Singer

We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

— Alan Greenspan

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

— Nate Silver