Will Rogers Quotes

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

If you think two steps ahead, you forget what's important in the now.

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

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

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

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.'

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

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.

My job is to think beyond the immediate.

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

Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me.

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

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

The long view counts.

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

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far 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.

I try to look in the future and think backwards. That is when I am at my most comfortable. Because then I am just like the movie, 'Back to the Future.'

We are never complacent. My job is to make us look 10 years out and be prepared.

I never think long or long term.

The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.