Quotes About Foresight

Whatever you do, think of next morning's headlines.

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.

The future never just happened. It was created.

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future.

Do you have vivid picture of your visions in your mind?

Always look ahead, but never look back.

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.

Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient

Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.