Forecasts Quote by Martin J. Whitman

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

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

— Edgar Fiedler

People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far…

— Alan Greenspan

“Hundreds of studies confirm that human forecasts are flawed and biased. Human decision making is not so great either. Again to take just one…

— Richard H. Thaler

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

— Alan Greenspan

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I like the fact that the weather forecast is always wrong. In a world of BlackBerry insta-connection, Google research, and Hadron Colliders, it is…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

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

— Paul Saffo

Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.

— Samuel Goldwyn

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

— Yogi Berra

Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus…

— Noreena Hertz

I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.

— Peter Lynch