Quotes from John Naisbitt

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

The more high technology around us, the more the need for human touch...HighTech/High Touch. The principle symbolizes the need for balance between our physical and spiritual reality.

Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first a strategic vision.

Don't get so far in front of the parade that no one knows you're in the parade.

The modernization of Asia will forever reshape the world as we move toward the next millennium.

In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.

We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.