Foresight Quotes

"What is past is prologue." "Jesters do oft prove prophets." "I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side." "The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of having imagination is to have a sense of life." "Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future" "Even the very wise cannot see all ends" "If you don't think about the future you cannot have one" "Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised" "The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate." "The most intelligent people in the world are those who don’t need to be told" "A little neglect may breed great mischief " "Before beginning, plan carefully." "We can only see a short distance ahead" "Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare" "Never let them know your next move" "The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb" "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed "