Quotes About Forecasting

There's always another storm. It's the way the world works. Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms, and firestorms. Some are fierce and others are small. You have to deal with each one separately, but you need to keep an eye on whats brewing for tomorrow.

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.

There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for quite a while!" ? Bill Murray character in Cadyshack

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.

Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.

The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.

Never make forecasts, especially about future.

Predition is risky, especially of the future.

Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future

People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.

You can't hide secrets from the future with math.