Bill Maris Quotes

I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct.

Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?

History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.

I can't predict the future.

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

We're so used to thinking in the short term, and the minute you speak in more long-term language then you tend to get dismissed as utopian and so on. We have a real problem here in making long-term thinking respectable

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future.

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

The long view counts.

In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to the operation during a single year, or even a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

Any prediction of the future is certainly a lie in order to sell a position.

People always overestimate how much will change in the next three years, and they underestimate how much will change over the next 10 years.