Quotes About Foresight

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

What we prepare for is what we shall get.

We must therefore take account of this changeable nature of things and of human institutions and prepare for them with enlightened foresight.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.

Today's failure can teach us to prepare for the future.

Be who your enemies dread you'll become.

Better to do planning, Rather than being planned.

Don't make such decisions whose bad results make you look like you are your own enemy.

The more wary you are of danger the more likely you are to meet it.

If you want to be a big company tomorrow you have to start acting like one today.

Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.

Foreknowledge is power.

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.

pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

My time is coming, I told myself, and I must do what I can to prepare for it. T

If you trap the moment before it's ripe,The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe;But if once you let the ripe moment goYou can never wipe off the tears of woe.

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.

fields in the world laid waste; and five millions of harmless and industrious people were either expelled or destroyed. Want of foresight became more fatal than innate barbarism; and [the company's servants] found themselves wading

They sought to answer such questions as What is the intended destination for this business in ten or twenty years? What must management be doing today to raise the probability of arriving at that destination? And what could prevent this company from reaching such a favorable destination?

I had suspected there might be some shoe discarding so I made sure my socks were without holes that day.

The kinna man woulda got two complimentary tickets for the Titanic.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming