Trent Franks Quotes

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The future is always coming up with surprises for us, and the best way to insulate yourself from these surprises is to diversify.

The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.

I always say expect the unexpected!

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

We cannot assume that past successes will insure future successes.

Things always change and you can't ever say never, because you don't know what is around the corner.

I don't look further than next year because in our world, anything can happen.

Every competition is different... You can't plan for everything that happens.

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

You just never know how anything is going to go.

I like the not knowing of what the next job is.

When you don't know what to expect, prepare for the unexpected.

Expect the unexpected.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

What I love about my work is the variety and not knowing what's coming next, and being able to embrace something for a period of time and know something new is going to follow.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.