Forecasting Quotes

31 quotes by 27 authors

• The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on… — Patrick Young
• Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and… — James Surowiecki
• Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as… — Bill Nye
• Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market. — 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 take meaningful action in the… — Paul Saffo
• I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future. Its purpose ought… — 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 forecasting what`s going to happen… — 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. The intelligent development of our… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker
• Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35… — Vinod Khosla
• The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. — John Kenneth Galbraith
• There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that… — Daniel Kahneman
• A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and… — Howard Rheingold
• Did they launch the last space shuttle yet?” – Sundown “I don’t follow.” – Ren “I’m just thinking maybe we should evacuate the whole planet.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
• We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To… — Bill Nye
• Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame?… — Tadashi Shoji

Who Wrote These Forecasting Quotes

27 authors contributed a total of 31 Forecasting Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Forecasting Quotes by Bill Nye
• 3 Forecasting Quotes by Barry Ritholtz
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Lawrence R. Klein
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Chris Anderson
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Patrick Young
• 1 Forecasting Quote by James Surowiecki
• 1 Forecasting Quote by John Maynard Keynes
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Ben Bernanke
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Nate Silver
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Paul Saffo
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Peter Cundill
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Peter Lynch
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Benjamin Graham
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Piers Corbyn
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Paul J. H. Schoemaker
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Vinod Khosla
• 1 Forecasting Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Daniel Kahneman
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Howard Rheingold
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Tadashi Shoji
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Alan Greenspan
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Martin Jacques
• 1 Forecasting Quote by Seth Shostak