John Naisbitt Quotes

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.

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.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The future is embedded in the present.

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

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

It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.

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

In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.

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.

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

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.

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

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.

...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.

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

Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.

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

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