Quotes by John Naisbitt

“It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Value is what people are willing to pay for it.”

“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”

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.

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

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

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.

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

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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