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• I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Future, Past, My Past

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• When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen

  Bob Farrell

  Experts, Agree, Happens

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• The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it’s going to just get more unpredictable. If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them – another economic collapse, it’s almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it’s a perpetual driver of disruption.

  Steve Jurvetson

  News, Financial, Lifetime

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• A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future, both conceived in the same spirit as the above-mentioned interpretation in natural sciences. Anarchy, therefore, appears as a constituent part of the new philosophy, and that is why Anarchists come in contact, on so many points, with the greatest thinkers and poets of the present day.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Philosophy, Past, Names

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Lecture by Peter Kropotkin, translated by Harry Lyman Koopman, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1898.

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• I have a small tattered clipping that I sometimes carry with meand pull out for purposes of privateamusement. It's a weather forecast from theWestern Daily Mail and it says, in toto: 'Outlook: Dry and warm, but cooler with some rain.

  Bill Bryson

  Rain, Weather, Mail

  1995 Notes from a Small Island.

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• Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.

  Julian Baggini

  Weather, Advice, Surfing

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• One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.

  Willa Cather

  Happiness, Lucky, World

  "Willa Cather in Europe". Book by Willa Cather, 1956.

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• Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Morning, Dark

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• All right, kids. We’re going to a party where they don’t like us very much. Everyone know what they’re doing? (Sin) Not a clue, but I think certain death and dismemberment is in my forecast, followed by a light rain of guys and flayed skin. (Kish)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Party, Rain, Kids

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• Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and deciding the best course of action in the face of that future are much less likely to do so. And much of what we've seen so far suggests that a large group of diverse individuals will come up with better and more robust forecasts and make more intelligent decisions than even the most skilled "decision maker."

  James Surowiecki

  Hard Work, Intelligent, Skills

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• [T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Block, Struggle, Men

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• Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Sea, Maelstrom, Hopelessness

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• Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Failure, Exercise, Champion

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• Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life. The calculation of intrinsic value, though, is not so simple. As our definition suggests, intrinsic value is an estimate rather than a precise figure, and it is additionally an estimate that must be changed if interest rates move or forecasts of future cash flows are revised.

  Warren Buffett

  Moving, Taken, Simple

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.220, John Wiley & Sons

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• The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

  Emanuel Celler

  Pregnancy, Russia, United States

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Portfolios, Opinion, Recommendations

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.389, Random House

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• I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Paper, Economic

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• If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes

  Peter Lynch

  Risk, Analyzing, Management

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• There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Home, Optimistic, Fishing

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• It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.

  Benjamin Graham

  Thinking, Investing, Making Money

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• The most important thing is to forecast where customers are moving, and be in front of them.

  Philip Kotler

  Moving, Important, Customers

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• Financial security is a constant in my life. I allow my income to constantly expand, no matter what the newspapers and economists say. I move beyond my present income, and I go beyond the economic forecasts. I do not listen to people out there telling me how far I can go or what I can do.

  Louise Hay

  Moving, People, Income

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jun 22, 2011

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• The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.

  Walter Wriston

  Coping Mechanisms, Events, Use

  1986 Risk and Other Four-Letter Words.

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• Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.

  Bryan Appleyard

  Years, Years Ago, Internet

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• I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

  Winston Churchill

  Keys, Russia, Action

  Radio broadcast, 1 Oct. 1939

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