John Naisbitt Quotes

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• The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

  John Naisbitt

  Mean, Technology, Century

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• In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

  John Naisbitt

  Life, Change, Future

  John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing

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• We are drowning in information
  but starved for knowledge.

  John Naisbitt

  Reading, Book, Knowledge

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• The more high technology around us, the more the need for human touch...HighTech/High Touch. The principle symbolizes the need for balance between our physical and spiritual reality.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Technology, Reality

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• The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

  John Naisbitt

  Inspiring, Success, Motivation

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• The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

  John Naisbitt

  Future, Trying, Way

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• Think globally, act locally, think tribally, act universally.

  John Naisbitt

  Thinking

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• Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

  John Naisbitt

  Horse, Trends, Easier

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• Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Technology, Balance

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• The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

  John Naisbitt

  Skills, Important, Constantly Learning

  John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing

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• The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

  John Naisbitt

  Order, Leader, Giver

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• If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right, you will feel like you are walking across open fields, the perspective wide and your feet free to take any turn.

  John Naisbitt

  Feet, Perspective, Fields

  John Naisbitt (2006). “Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future”, HarperBusiness

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• The future is embedded in the present.

  John Naisbitt

  Embedded

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• Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

  John Naisbitt

  Inspirational, People, Pay

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• Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

  John Naisbitt

  Business, Vision, Firsts

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• In a culture of electronic violence, images that once caused us to empathize with the pain and trauma of another human being, excite a momentary adrenaline rush. To be numb to another's pain - to be acculturated to violence - is one of the worst consequences our technological advances. That indifference transfers from the screen, TV, film, Internet, and electronic games to our everyday lives.

  John Naisbitt

  Pain, Communication, Games

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• Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

  John Naisbitt

  Wisdom, Data, Intuition

  John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing

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• The bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smallest player.

  John Naisbitt

  Powerful, Player, World

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• We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.

  John Naisbitt

  Running, Acceptance, Keys

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• We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Technology, Race

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• Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

  John Naisbitt

  Leadership, Parades, Findings

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• ...countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development.

  John Naisbitt

  Country, Government, Entrepreneur

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• We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

  John Naisbitt

  Change, Society, Shifting

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• Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

  John Naisbitt

  Expectations, Revolutionary, Speed

  John Naisbitt (2006). “Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future”, HarperBusiness

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• Globalization is a bottom-up phenomenon with all actions initiated by milions of individuals, the sum total of which is globalization. No one is in charge, and no one can anticipate what the sum of all the individual initiatives will be before the result manifest. A global economy can only be the result of spontaneous order.

  John Naisbitt

  Order, Action, Spontaneous

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