Quotes About Foresight

Many a business depends for its success on some girl who is smart enough to see to it that her boss gets his work done, who sometimes even does his work for him, who keeps everybody satisfied and happy, and who has enough foresight to control new situations as they occur. How do you go about finding such a jewel? … RICHARD and RUBIN, How to Select and Direct the Office Staff

The future does not happen just by chance.

Even when you know something bad will happen, you still might not see it coming.

You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.

Mi-am petrecut atât de mult timp asigrându-m? c? nu-mi subestimez adversarii, încât am uitat c? e aproape tot atât de periculos s?-i supraestimez.

Nothing like one of Sandwich's prophecies to put your whole world in perspective.

It's a huge edge, sometime life-saving, to adopt a good idea early and put it into practice.

When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of an idea about the beginning, and although I do write the story one sentence at a time, when I'm thinking it up, I'm thinking it up all at once.

At a certain point, you have to take the rearview mirrors off the bus and focus forward, and that's what we've sought to do.

As time has gone by, I have looked more and more like Paul Revere than the alarmist my critics have sought to portray.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'

its better to get hurt now than to get hurt later.

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

Through the aid of the sixth sense, you will be warned of impending dangers in time to avoid them, and notified of opportunities in time to embrace them. There comes to your aid, and to do your bidding, with the development of the sixth sense, a "guardian angel" who will open to you at all times the door to the temple of wisdom.

In parting, I would remind you that Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is TIME. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by TIME. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate INDECISION!

PLANOS DEFINIDOS: líderes bem-sucedidos devem planejar o trabalho e trabalhar seus planos. Líderes que atuam por adivinhação, sem planos práticos e definidos, são como um navio sem leme. Mais cedo ou mais tarde vão bater nas pedras.

No human being has sufficient foresight to build plans which need no alteration or change.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.

Perhaps the wise one is the one who knows that he cannot see things far away.

Some business bets in which one wins big but infrequently, yet loses small but frequently, are worth making if others are suckers for them and if you have the personal and intellectual stamina.

So let us call here the teleological fallacy the illusion that you know exactly where you are going, and that you knew exactly where you were going in the past, and that others have succeeded in the past by knowing where they were going.