Herbie Hancock Quotes

My business is to prevent the future.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.

A leader not only has to be in the center but also be in the future.

Foreknowledge is power.

The further backward we look, the further forward we are likely to see.

Planning means looking ahead.

You get a sense when you're a player of where the game's going and you work your way around that.

It's far, far better to be prepared: the more you know about the other team, the better.

To be honest, I'm not the kind of guy to think about the future in the long term.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

You have more control of things if you play defense. And you can control how you play defense, too, with effort and preparation.

We can't all wake up and know everything.

We need to make sure we are constantly staying ahead, thinking about what is coming.

I try to be two or three steps ahead of my guy, my opponent.

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.