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The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

Russell L. Ackoff
Assumption, Forecasts

Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast

Warren Buffett
Forecasts

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Shapes, Action, Forecasts

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

Edgar Fiedler
Business, Forecasts, Ifs

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

Arthur C. Clarke
Forecasts
Arthur Charles Clarke, Ervin Laszlo (2011). “Macroshift: Navigating the Transformation to a Sustainable World (Large Print 16pt)”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

Amos Bronson Alcott
Future, Past, Forecasts

Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.

Samuel Goldwyn
Difficult, Forecasts

Never make forecasts, especially about future.

Samuel Goldwyn
Future, Forecasts

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

Nate Silver
Masquerade, Accurate, Forecasts
Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.39, Penguin

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

Samuel West
Ambition, Shipping, Forecasts

No one can forecast the economy with certainty.

Jamie Dimon
Economy, Certainty, Forecasts
"Improving Housing Market Driving Economy: Jamie Dimon" by Margo D. Beller, www.cnbc.com. March 28, 2012.

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

George Osborne
Oil, World, Forecasts
"George Osborne unveils employee 'shares for rights' scheme" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2012.

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