Quotes About Future

If The Entrepreneur lives in the future, The Manager lives in the past. Where The Entrepreneur craves control, The Manager craves order. Where The Entrepreneur thrives on change, The Manager compulsively clings to the status quo.

you'll know that your business is destined to grow, and that once it does your job is going to be significantly different. For now, that's all you need.

Knowing where the money is and where it will be when you need it is a critically important task of both the Contractor-as-Employee and the Contractor-as-Owner.

But that's another story and shall be told another time

Mi existencia es incomprensible y ridícula. Pero nunca estuvo a mi alcance poder elegir otra. Uno no deja de ser quien es. La libertad existe solo en el futuro. En el pasado ya no se puede encontrar. Nadie puede escoger otro pasado. Todo lo que sucede tenía que suceder como sucedió. A posteriori todo es inevitable. A priori nada. Lo único que importa es despertar del sueño.

No existe el instante, sólo el pasado o el futuro. Porque ahora, por ejemplo, este instante… cuando hablo de él ya ha pasado.

Chi non ha più un passato non ha neppure un avvenire.

Wer keine Vergangenheit mehr hat, der hat auch keine Zukunft.

We estimate that by 2050, more than 10 percent of the U.S. population will be 90 years or older—chronologically—and 18 percent will be over age 80.

The point to stress is that we believe people will work 15 to 20 more highly productive years as the Great Age Reboot kicks in.

Do not get hung up on the past. Your life is made up of the present and future, and your past helps you navigate.

Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.

The future throws a bridge toward the past, over the gaping abyss of capitalist non-culture.

The public health texts of the future will use this as a lesson on how not to handle an infectious disease pandemic.

He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.

What people remember about the past, they suggested, is likely to warp their judgment of the future. "We often decide that an outcome is extremely unlikely or impossible, because we are unable to imagine any chain of events that could cause it to occur. The defect, often, is in our imagination."¶ The

Historians imposed false order upon random events, too, probably without even realizing what they were doing. Amos had a phrase for this. "Creeping determinism," he called it—and jotted in his notes one of its many costs: "He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.

The American Home of the Future, it went without saying, would be controlled and monitored by a computer. The computer would permit the owner to enter into a new, fantastic relationship with his dwelling.

When you borrow a lot of money to create a false prosperity, you import the future into the present. It isn't the actual future so much as some grotesque silicone version of it. Leverage buys you a glimpse of a prosperity you haven't really earned.

that'll go to zero. Everything will be observed. Everything will be predicted.

No doubt the Home of the Future was only one of several possible uses Clark would find for their work. That was Clark's job—to imagine a future for their software.

Never mind that you weren't actually making money—there'd be time for that later, assuming someone eventually figured out how to make money from the Internet. For the moment you needed to plow all of your revenues back into growth. You had to show that you were the company not of the present but of the future.

What Milken was saying was that the entire American credit-rating system was flawed. It focused on the past when it should have focused on the future, and it was burdened by a phony sense of prudence.

The SEC, like the public stock exchanges, had a kind of equity stake in the future revenues of high-frequency traders.