Quotes About Foresight

successful businesses and economies invest into a downturn, aiming to emerge on the other side ahead of their competitors.

Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.

Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple business of planning a war.

No matter how thoroughly you plan, no matter how much you think you know, you've never thought of everything.

Jullie kijken ook nooit verder dan je neus lang is,' merkte Cassandra op. 'Ik ga wel.

T'inquiète pas, chef. Ces Tualaghi, on les a cernés... De l'intérieur.

Je hebt echt overal aan gedacht,' zei ze. Will keek op en schudde ontkennend zijn hoofd. 'Dat betwijfel ik,' zei hij ernstig. 'Hoe goed je ook alles plant, hoe goed je je voorbereidt - je hebt nooit aan alles gedacht.

Now if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple business of planning a war,' he said.

Ik dacht van niet" - dat waren de laatste woorden van heel wat onvoorzichtige reizigers. - Halt

The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.

He who cannot remember the past is doomed. DOOMED!

It was the secret of advancement in the service: Always be on the side of what is going to happen anyway.

Formative commendation to the author as an altar boy: "You're the only one we've got to anticipates what's coming.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher, because they're still out there… haunting you. The what-ifs.

Perhaps there is prophecy in the stage after all.

As an old crew chief of mine used to point out, you might be dead long before the problem you didn't have the resources to fix right now became a critical need, so why waste more resources worrying about it?

Oxford smiled and Kit still knew him well enough to read the pleasure of a chess player who has successfully anticipated his opponent.

Sometimes you know before you know.

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.

The highest task of intelligence: to imagine a future and then smooth its approach.

I say that one must be a visionary - that one must make oneself a VISIONARY.