Andy Stern Quotes

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

Too much we have lived in our history. We must live in the future.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

The visionaries of yesterday are the realists of today.

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

We must not continue to dwell in the past and we must resolve to do the right and march along with the rest of the world.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

My government's aim for Fiji is not to return to where we once were but to journey forward together to a place we have not yet been

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

The problem in any constitutional change is the great care put to solve the problems of the past instead of grasping those of the future.

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

Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time, because if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

Luxembourg has always been a country that has tried to reinvent its own future.

We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.

Greatness will come by looking forward - untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values - and by changing our nation's future.