John Naisbitt Quotes - Page 2

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

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

In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The economic borderlines of our world will not be drawn between countries, but around Economic Domains. Along the twin paths of globalization and decentralization, the economic pieces of the future are being assembled in a new way. Not what is produced by a country or in a country will be of importance, but the production within global Economic Domains, measured as Gross Domain Products. The global market demands a global sharing of talent. The consequence is Mass Customization of Talent and education as the number one economic priority for all countries

The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience.

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it; what is happening in America is that those parades are getting smaller and smaller - and there are many more of them.