Guy Kawasaki Quotes

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

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

Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

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

I'm not really good with predicting.

Trying to predict the future is a loser's game.

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

While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

I can't predict the future.

Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

Predicting the future is very difficult. As a historian I have trouble trying to predict the past.

It's the ability to foretell what will happen tomorrow, next month, and next year --- and to explain afterward why it didn't happen.

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Foreseeing the future is always difficult.

People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

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

Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future.