Quotes About Foresight

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Do not spit into the well that you might need to drink out of.

You'll never achieve what you never planned for. You'll never plan for what you never thought of.

Success without planning is impossible.

A good plan today is better than a great plan of tomorrow! Look backward with satisfaction and look forward with confidence.

Don't tell people 'Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today' today. Prepare today and then tell them tomorrow.

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

Never plan a future with someone with no future plans for themselves.

You don't need someone to see your future. You need someone who can figure out your past.

Don't plan a future with someone who doesn't have a future planned out for themselves.

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.

Your imagination is your preview of lifes coming attractions.

if you want to live in the city you have to think ahead three turns, and look behind a lie to see the truth and then behind that truth to see the lie.

An alarm clock is a device to wake a man up who has no plans or intentions for the future that could make him wake up himself.

He who knows nothing is as blind as him who cannot see.

The best time to learn to change the tyre of your life is before you have a flat one.

The key to success is to prepare yourself first before doing anything else.

The rich man thinks about the future the poor man thinks about today.

You will never lose a battle if you know your own situation as well as that of the enemy.

My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.

begin to determine what you really want in the distant, intermediate, and near future.