Quotes About Foresight

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.

Beware of little expenses; A small leak will sink a great ship, as Poor Richard says; and again, Who dainties love, shall beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.

I am captivated more by dreams of the future then history of the past.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Some people are weatherwise, but most are otherwise.

To fail to Prepare is to prepare to fail

Our sensations being very much fixed to the moment, we are apt to forget that more moments are to follow the first, and consequently that man should arrange his conduct so as to suit the whole of a life.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail

the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,

For age and want save while you may; No morning sun lasts a whole day.

263. As a Desperate Game needs an able Gamester, so Consideration often would prevent, what the best skill in the World Cannot Recover.

plant trees that other men will sit under.

School was preparation for the future... and he had no intention to go into the future unprepared.

When I have a difficult decision to make, I imagine myself as a 90-year-old guy looking back on his life. I imagine what I'll think about myself at that point in time, and it always makes it really easy to go for it. You're only going to regret that you wimped out.

I believe it is better to take extra precautions now than to regret later.

To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.

When you are running a business, there is a constant need to reinvent oneself. One should have the foresight to stay ahead in times of rapid change and rid ourselves of stickiness in any form in the business.

I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.

I think in terms of 20-year horizons.

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

Wouldn't it be nice if human nature could learn stuff before we get to the brink? It seems we have to experience it first.

Always have a backup plan to the backup plan.

My mother had always told her kids: If you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.