Quotes About Forecast

IN 1710, THE ENGLISH FREETHINKER Thomas Woolston (1670–1731) expressed his confidence that religion would vanish by 1900.1 Voltaire (1695–1778) thought this much too pessimistic and predicted that religion would be gone from the Western world within the next fifty years—by about 1810.

Prophesy as much as you like, but always hedge. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1861

On August 13, 2015, I predicted in my blog that Donald Trump had a 98 percent chance of winning the presidency based on his persuasion skills. A week earlier, the most respected political forecaster in the United States—Nate Silver—had put Trump's odds of winning the Republican nomination at 2 percent in his FiveThirtyEight.com blog.

The forecast was cloudy with extended periods of consciousness, followed by a stitch in my side and a sense of impending doom swelling to a symphony of demolition

Lesson: Do not assume that what investors call momentum, a long streak of either rising or falling prices, will continue unless you can make a sound case that it will.

An intriguing question is if there is any difference between a palmist and an economist given the fact of the outcome often seen of their forecast and prediction.

There is not much difference between an economist and a palmist because of the similarity of the success ratio of the predictions of both.

It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.

Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.

Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to explain or forecast the economic or social outcomes that these institutions generate.

When you fall short of your internal forecast, two things happen: Costs go up as a percentage of sales, and margins go down.

In 2004, I predicted in a nationally televised conference in Washington, D.C., that the U.S. would be a Third World country in 20 years.

The information superhighway is a dirt road that won't be paved over until 2025.

The CMO is expected to spend more on technology than the CIO by 2017.

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

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past performance is no guarantee of future success.

I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

Stop confusing activities with accomplishment. Stop pushing reps to rush through the sales process. Master the customer conversation with specific personas and use cases. Understand how to sell business value, using a repeatable process. Learn to qualify deal advancement issues in account situations. Coach reps on how to control an opportunity. Understand how to forecast accurately.

Like Charles Murray in The Bell Curve, Wells foresees a future divided between a permanent underclass and a "cognitive elite.

To the contrary, when you look at projections, both Polish and international, we can expect some slowing down of the rate of growth in the coming year, 2012. But of course these are projections.

Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking.