Forecasting Quotes
31 quotes by 27 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
— Ben Bernanke
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The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.
— Nate Silver
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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
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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
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I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.
— Peter Lynch
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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
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Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
— Piers Corbyn
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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
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Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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