Quotes About Foresight

He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.

Online life is about premeditation.

knowledge without wisdom is a clear and present danger

it's not enough to be up to date. We have to be up "to-morrow.

Everyone is worried about what people might be thinking.... Successful people go a step further and focus on what no one is thinking about.

The most vulnerable moment for your enemy is when they are thinking that everything is going according to plan.

For the canny and the farsighted, vast deficits also create vast opportunities.

Age is a plow that unearths the true nature of things. But only after the moment has passed and we are powerless to change anything, are we granted wisdom. As though we are living backward.

he would ask me a thousand little questions, just, he said, to sound out the future a little.

"Planning is thinking about tomorrow,today." -sm-

Position yourself right, opportunities will come before you can imagine.

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.

Max Boot theorem: Don't invade without planning for a long occupation.

That's the one thing you can always depend on; as we're fighting one war, we're always preparing for the next one.

It is because of this enemy, the enemy of time, that I have forsaken the luxury of hindsight and

armies perfect the art of fighting the last war just in time for the next one.

The trick is to discern a market – before there is any proof that one exists.

I'd be a dumbass if I didn't plan for every contingency.

You are wary of treachery? More wary of stupidity.

If I was going to climb onto an animal eight times my size, I wanted to plan the attempt first.