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 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 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 future is embedded in the present.

  John Naisbitt

  Embedded

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

  John Naisbitt

  Future, Trying, Way

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

  John Naisbitt

  Inspirational, People, Pay

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

  John Naisbitt

  Order, Leader, Giver

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

  John Naisbitt

  Powerful, Player, World

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• America is a bottom-up society, where new trends and ideas begin in cities and local communities...My colleagues and I have studied this great country by reading its newspapers. We have discovered that trends are generated from the bottom up.

  John Naisbitt

  Country, Reading, Cities

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

  John Naisbitt

  Leadership, Parades, Findings

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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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• In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Teacher, Philosophy

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• In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

  John Naisbitt

  People, Tools, Growing

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

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• Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

  John Naisbitt

  Precious Things

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

  John Naisbitt

  Thinking

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

  John Naisbitt

  Business, Vision, Firsts

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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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