Quotes About Foresight

I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view.

Nothing is more obsolete than yesterday's vision of the future.

If the plane you fly has a true airspeed of 120 to 180 knots, you need to be thinking about weather at least 120 miles to 180 miles ahead of your present position. That means the conditions you'll face at least one hour in front of your present position should be carefully considered now.

Far ahead of his time, and to the criticism of isolationists in his own party, Roosevelt tried to get the major nations of the world to come together and take stock of the globe they shared.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I'll spend the first four sharpening the axe." —Abraham Lincoln

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." –Colonel David Hackworth

we would always think: 'Okay, if we do X today, what does that result in tomorrow, a year from now, ten years from now?' The

Losers react, leaders anticipate.

Okay, if we do X today, what does that result in tomorrow, a year from now, ten years from now?' The metaphor I think of the most—because it's simple—is the dog chasing the car. What does the dog do if he catches the car? He doesn't have a plan for it. So I find it just as often on the entrepreneurial side. People don't plan for success.

Cuando se trata del futuro, es mucho más importante tener imaginación que tener razón", de Alvin Toffler.»

I've learned an important trick: To develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight.

So, my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don't be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." –Colonel David Hackworth Former United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist

Sobre Richard Branson: «Lo primero que se plantea con cada negocio es: "¿Cuáles son los inconvenientes? ¿Y cómo me guardo de ellos?".

Soy anciano y he conocido gran cantidad de problemas, pero la mayoría de ellos no ha llegado a suceder jamás.

Qué coste tendrá cada uno de ellos para ti y para la gente que te importa dentro de uno, tres, cinco y diez años? Míralo, óyelo, siéntelo.

We waste our time with short-term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.

my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don't be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.

You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.

I've learned to envision the ideal end to any project before I begin it now—

Continua a dar da mangiare agli sciacalli e un giorno arriverà anche il leone», gli

If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.