Quotes About Foresight

Give me six minutes to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Having personality does not mean being violent, rather honouring life by taking a stand. In this era so devoid of values, where people think it is safe to do everything that comes to mind, there is a need for purity. Man can and must have direction. Jews and Catholics must work together to help the man who suffers, and most importantly, look ahead.

Nothing I know matters more Than what never happened. John Burnside, 'Hearsay

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

I make a distinction between the wisdom of age - which can only arise from the greater profundity and foresight that are based on the experiences of a long life - and the creative genius of youth, which blossoms out in thought and ideas with inexhaustible fertility, without being able to put these into practice immediately, because of their very superabundance.

So try this nightmare exercise: Imagine disaster. Ask why you failed; list all the possible reasons. Then do your best to counter those mistakes before they have a chance to occur. Most launches die from self-inflicted wounds. It means that if you're willing to take a clear-eyed look at the forces seemingly conspiring to derail your next launch, you'll probably find that the most powerful factors are actually under your control.

Peter Drucker once noted that "no institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under the leadership of perfectly normal human beings." Warren Buffet made the same point more pithily: "I only invest in companies which any fool can run, because some day some fool will run it.

I'd not felt so much as a pinprick of foreboding or dark premonition about what lay beyond the curve of time.

I never look past an opponent that I have.

There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.

I'd like to know what this whole show is all about before it's out.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

A striking illustration of the fact that true policy does not regard only the immediate necessities of the hour, but must ever look still more keenly to the future.

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The decisions you're making today will impact your tomorrows.

All trends and tendencies will bow before incisive minds.

At that time, I thought strategic plans were less important than strategic planning.

Decision makers should realize that their primary key lies in making decisions without any undue weight in the past, and with expectations about the future that are as accurate as possible.

Remember that the capability to envision positive outcomes is the essence of leadership.

Where there is no vision, people perish.

Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves.

When a fool has made up his mind the market has gone by.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.