Eric Hoffer Quotes

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

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The challenge of our times is to leave nothing to chance.

I like to plan. I like to see the future.

The future kind of gets less intimidating when you're the one shaping it.

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

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

Neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

We don't want to have to rely on last-minute goals every time!

There are two things you can do in politics: you can sit around waiting for things to happen, or you can start doing them.

David Stern is the mastermind behind a lot of stuff, he controls a lot of stuff, he dictates a lot of stuff so he's going to make himself look good.

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.

Leaders focus on what they can control, what they have, and what they want.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

Information is power. --Humfrey

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

Certainty without power can be interesting, even amusing. Certainty with power can be dangerous.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.