Forecasts Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith Download Open image “Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.” — John Kenneth Galbraith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forecasts Investing Knows Pundits
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
Pundits are no better at forecasting election outcomes than they would be at predicting the final path of a hurricane. Smart pundits should consider… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen — Bob Farrell 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
Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything. — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We don't have any sense for prediction because to know the future is nonsense. — Mohammad MUSTAFA 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
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course — Larry David 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
The federal government is starting to plan for climate change by making extended forecasts that can help people plan for extreme weather - because… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same. — Dean Williams Copy Share Image
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
"(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the market potential… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism,… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
I once read about a meeting of economists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, that was considered a high… — Gerald M. Loeb Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago),… — Matthew Simmons Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
