Quotes About Forecast

National polls basically always misinterpret the final outcome or mis-predict the final outcome.

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.

What we know for sure is that rulers did not appreciate having astrologers forecast the time and manner of their demise. As

Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific." —L. Sprague de Camp

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see," which I interpret to mean that looking way back into the past provides much better perspective into the enduring patterns of history. I'd

Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.

I never predict anything, and I never will.

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

I can't predict the future.

Networks love data. They love to be able to look at numbers and try to predict what they think will work.

I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

The success that Pantera had, I could have never, ever forecasted or predicted, and I always felt a responsibility to try to pay even a bit of it forward.

As much as I think the sports world loves to try to predict everything, there are still some parts of it that can't be predicted.

Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

I tell people all the time I don't make predictions.

Weathermen pay price for nature's curve balls

An estimate is not a number. An estimate is a distribution.

traditional economic approaches fail to examine the role of public beliefs in major economic events—that is, narrative. By incorporating an understanding of popular narratives into their explanations of economic events, economists will become more sensitive to such influences when they forecast the future. In doing so, they will give policymakers better tools for anticipating and dealing with these developments.