Herman Kahn Quotes

We believe that our cost effectiveness is one of our most powerful competitive advantages in Networks, and we will not lose sight of that in the future.

Ashley Cheng, who I've worked with for 20 years, he's the studio head in Rockville now. He manages more of the day-to-day stuff. I can focus creatively on what we're doing now and what we should be doing in the future.

I don't think managers have the opportunity to think in terms of a long-term vision for a club.

An entrepreneur never thinks of quarter-on-quarter; he thinks for 25 years, 50 years.

After every major tournament or challenge, I'll always sit down and say 'how does the future look? How does the next six months, year, four years look?'

My hope is Donald Trump will take a longer view and a more unified approach.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty's horse to fly within the year - on the condition that if he didn't succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. "Within a year," the man explained later, "the king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly." My philosophy is like that man's. I take the long-range view.

Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.

You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.

An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.

If we are to control our own future, it will be necessary, not only to obtain the cooperation of people, but to prepare comprehensive plans for that future.

I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

Strategy is about shaping the future.