Quotes About Foresight

The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.

I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

Don't forget your history nor your destiny

Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

In hindsight everything is much clearer.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.

A person without regrets is a nincompoop.

If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future.

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Play on the frontiers of technology. Be ahead of the tomorrows.

The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.

A wise man does not eat his seed even in the time of hunger, he knows the value of his seed!

Every action in the present prepare us for the future.

Vision is the culmination of thought.

Where there is no vision, the people perish" (Prov. 29:18a KJV). Unrestrained behavior leads eventually to destruction. People who have no vision also have no goal or purpose—nothing to shoot for. They have nowhere to go in life and, therefore, go nowhere.