Patrick Vieira Quotes

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

We cannot assume that past successes will insure future successes.

The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.

You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.

In this business, you can't make any plans.

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

This plan is subject to change without notice as all plans are.

The future is unpredictable.

The world is unpredictable.

You can only have a short sight because things change a lot. You can't plan what the years will bring.

Everything changes with time. You can't predict where you're gonna be next year; you have no idea, you know what I mean?

It is such an uncertain universe out there that you have to create what I call 'real' options and develop capabilities that will enable you to deal with an environment that will change anyway.

We simply have never been able to predict what our next challenge will be.

Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.

Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

I might not agree with myself in a year.

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need.