Tom Peters Quotes

It is not possible to rule out anything because we don't know what will happen.

One shouldn't know the future.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

I can't predict the future.

From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

You never know about life.

Life is a school of probability

The future is inherently uncertain.

The point of the future is that anything can happen.

There are no guarantees. If you spent money, it's no guarantee you win stuff.

You cannot guess what happens in the future.

You can never be sure what is around the corner.

You never know what could happen.

There's no way to know what's going to happen.

Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.

It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

So little of what could happen does happen.

I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.

This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.