Ted Turner Quotes

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.

I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

I don't care about the sort of things that will bring in chump change over the next two or three years. I think I'm better than others at sniffing out things that will bear fruit in 10 or 20 years while they're still at the seed stage, and I'm more willing to take the risks that entails.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!

If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind.

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.

You always look ahead to what you'll do next.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.