Quotes About Foresight

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Never underestimate the enemy, boys. If you don't figure him to have as much sense as you've got you'll have trouble.

The end is not obvious at the beginning, Artabanus, Book 7 Herodotus

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

It is the height of folly to be wise too late.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who can see it coming and jump aside.

No, we are getting ahead of our story, and only an jackass would do that

He knew from long experience that a letter sent in fury merely put a weapon into the hands of your enemy

He knew from long experience that a letter sent in fury merely put a weapon into the hands of your enemy. Poison, in preserved form, to be used against you long into the future.

War is the tao of deception. Therefore, when planning an attack, feign inactivity. When near, appear as if you are far away. When far away, create the illusion that you are near. If the enemy is efficient, prepare for him. If he is strong, evade him. If he is angry, agitate him. If he is arrogant, behave timidly so as to encourage his arrogance. If he is rested, cause him to exert himself. Advance when he does not expect you. Attack him when he is unprepared. —Sun-Tzu, The Art of War

Possessing foreknowledge of Japanese intentions, Nimitz had been dealt a very strong hand. It is also true that he played that hand skillfully, indeed flawlessly. In arranging his forces, Nimitz had concentrated on one overriding objective to the exclusion of all others: to ambush and destroy the Japanese carriers. Whereas Yamamoto's plan was vast and fatally complex, Nimitz's was straightforward, and aimed at the enemy's most vulnerable point.

You're so shortsighted, you might as well be blind!

You want be young and have fun, that's great. But while you're having fun, someone you don't see is studying and preparing. You might end up working for that person. No one wants to hear that! But I try to tell young people: You want to be the one signing the front of the check, not the back.

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.

If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.

There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. Just don't reload the gun.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.