Economics Quote by Sylvia Porter

When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen

— Bob Farrell

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.

— Ben Bernanke

No one can escape the iron rule that once you make a forecast, you know you're going to be wrong; you just don't know…

— Edgar Fiedler

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

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

— Russell L. Ackoff

Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur.…

— Warren Buffett

If you have to forecast, forecast often..

— Edgar Fiedler

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.

— Tim Harford

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

— Nate Silver

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