Jane Bryant Quinn Quotes

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.

Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

The future is inherently uncertain.

The general public still expects a lot more forecasting accuracy than any of us can deliver.

Predicting oil prices is anyone's guess.

I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.

No one can escape the iron rule that once you make a forecast, you know you're going to be wrong; you just don't know when and in which direction!

It's difficult to talk about the future because you never know.

Nobody knows what will happen in the future.

Foreseeing the future is always difficult.

It's always dangerous quoting numbers and expectations.

I don't like to predict the fights. People can do that. They can predict my fights, but I never do that.

You cannot guess what happens in the future.

If we all had crystal balls, we'd all know which horse to back, wouldn't we?

Speculating on the future serves for nothing.

Betting that markets will be 'volatile' is like betting the weather will be partly cloudy. It's a smart-sounding strategy that doesn't mean much.

Nobody knows the future.

We spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out who's going to be a good NFL quarterback, and we do a very bad job of it. We don't really know. And we also spend a lot of time trying to figure out who will be a good teacher, and we're really bad at that too. We don't know if someone is going to be a good teacher when they start teaching. So what should we do in those situations in which predictions are useless?

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.