Quotes from John Naisbitt

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

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.

One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.

The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.

The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.

In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.

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

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.