Albert Brooks Quotes

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

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing what's next and not following the trend of what's now.

A leader not only has to be in the center but also be in the future.

The further backward we look, the further forward we are likely to see.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

I think you have to see two steps ahead of things. That's just the way I roll.

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.'

There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.

Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.

I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

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

Knowlege is of no real value if all you can tell me is what happened yesterday. It is necessary to tell what will happen tomorrow ... you must be willing to stick your neck out.

A nation has to look ahead.

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.

While most game developers are focused entirely on what they're shipping in a year or two, a technology developer like Epic has to look much further out and plan many years ahead.

I don't do anything unless I think about it six months in advance.

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

We've gotta be trying to think of what's coming next before it comes next.