Vince Cable Quotes

None of us posses a crystal ball.

No one predicts the future. No one tries to.

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

I can't predict the future.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

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

I can't predict the future.

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

Being right is overrated! If someone is saying that they're right about the future, that's a claim only a fool would make.

Foreseeing the future is always difficult.

No one can predict the future.

Trying to predict the future is a loser's game.

I can't predict the future, nor will I. I'm not a fortune teller.

We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.