Quotes About Futures

Every person has hopes and dreams.

The options and futures traded on exchanges are derivatives contracts.

Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.

Our lives are merely trees of possibilities.

We live in a society controlled by a few, their decisions determine our futures. We live for them, but never see them, for they are not of this earth"     Simon Lewis 2015

As Gary walks down the hallway, I think of how funny it is that the most unlikely person sometimes becomes your ally. And how a blond girl can make you think futures are something to look forward to.

I have always found it amazing that in exchange for paper I can get a book or a dress, that the stock market actually rises and falls on rumor - mere talk - and that people trade in something called Futures, as if such a thing were possible.

Everywhere are people with dreams, and I think how we all have them.

Everyone gets to have dreams. Not just you.

Don't forget your history nor your destiny

Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

Instead of looking at leadership as decision making—as a rational process of sifting through data, analyzing trends, and making decisions based on predicting futures—a design framework emphasizes pragmatic experimentation.

You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Nature does not guarantee that socialism will follow on the heels of capitalism. There are many different futures implicit in the present, some of them a lot less attractive than others...[T]hough the future may turn out to be a great deal worse than the present, the one thing about it is that it will be very different. One reason why the financial markets blew up a few years ago was because they relied on models that assumed the future would be very like the present.

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.

You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.

Life is a sum of all your choices," wrote Albert Camus. Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others along the way.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

Thank you, lives we did not lead, might like to lead, might still lead.

They lived for different futures, but they were each other's unrecognized halves, and what fascination between them did come to pass was lit up, beyond question, with grace.

Education is not a linear process of preparation for the future: it is about cultivating the talents and sensibilities through which we can live our best lives in the present and create the best futures for us all.