Experts Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith Download Open image “The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.” — John Kenneth Galbraith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Experts Financial Foresight Guides Money Poor Time
Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise. — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time. — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“Financial crises—and most other failures of prediction—stem from this false sense of confidence.” — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions. — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are… — Safra A. Catz Copy Share Image
“It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But...I've learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the… — Robert Heilbroner 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
It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in. — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was. — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is,… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients… — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have… — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years. — John Osborne Copy Share Image
The big story today, Barack Obama was accused of insulting Sarah Palin when he criticized Republican policies by saying, you can put lipstick on… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique and informative… — Koji Nakanishi Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I thought if I was open and honest, it would help the reader to get open and honest, and they also would realize sometimes… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
