Quotes About Forecast

I said '17 - right now, this year, "'17 is going to be a disaster." I'm very good at this stuff.

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.

History is a vast early warning system.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

The weatherman is always right. It's just his timing that's off.

Live with the assumption that every day it will rain. If it does, you were right. If it doesn't, you were fortunate.

A bull doesn't go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predicts a down swing in a rising market.

Why don't we just call plans what they really are: guesses.

No idea about weather these days.

Part of my advantage is that my strength is economic forecasting, but that only works in free markets, when markets are smarter than people. That's how I started. I watched the stock market, how equities reacted to change in levels of economic activity, and I could understand how price signals worked and how to forecast them.

You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast.

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

I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

When I ran a small IT services business in the 1990s, it had strong recurring revenues - yet I couldn't accurately forecast cash flow for even the next few quarters. Small changes in the customer base or losing/hiring a few key employees could create massive swings in cash flow.

predictions can't vary more than the thing being forecast.

It seemed warmer outside, as though it were going to snow again.

You never know ahead of time what something is really going to be like.

And then it will rain.

Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.

There is something in the wind.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

forecasts have to be based on the past, and