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It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
Sep 17, 2025
Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.
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.
The future is not to be forecast, but created.
There are some times, when you can predict weather well for the next 15 days. Other times, you can only really forecast a couple of days. Sometimes you can't predict the next two hours.
It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to do.
Never make forecasts, especially about future.
The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.
The IEA forecasts that production from oilfields, which have started production up to 2011, will nearly drop two-thirds by 2035.
Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning
Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course
I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to forecast the six lotto numbers and all your bills will be paid.
I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
The forecast today is love all around.
We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.
I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.
Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.
If you have to forecast, forecast often.
If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.
One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.
DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don't expect dentists to be able to forecast how many teeth you'll have when you're 80. You expect them to give good advice and fix problems.
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
"(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the market potential for his segment is tens of billions. It doesn't matter if the product is bar mitzah planning software or 802.11 chip sets. Venture capitalists don't believe this type of forecast because it's the fifth one of this magnitude that they've heard that day. Entrepreneurs would do themselves a favor by simply removing any reference to market size estimates from consulting firms.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.
Senator, my answer is that the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court requires that nominees before this committee for a position on that court not forecast, give predictions, give hints, about how they might rule in cases that might come before the Supreme Court,.
Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin of error was high in a forecasting model that I might put together. Now I view it as perhaps the single most important piece of information that a forecaster provides. When we publish a forecast on FiveThirtyEight, I go to great lengths to document the uncertainty attached to it, even if the uncertainty is sufficiently large that the forecast won't make for punchy headlines.
If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes
Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared.
My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.
It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child's present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become.
All decisions originate in the brain. So if we can better understand what's happening in the brain when we make investment decisions, maybe one day we'll be able to make more accurate financial forecasts - for a stock or even the entire market.
The federal government is starting to plan for climate change by making extended forecasts that can help people plan for extreme weather - because what can go wrong when you combine the efficiency of government with the accuracy of weathermen?
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
The major changes that will be occurring within the new merged partnership are exciting in many ways. First, we will have the highest forecast distribution growth rate of any of the major MLPs. Second, our coverage will be above average for the same peer group with expected $1.1 billion of excess cash flow coverage through 2017 and the Access cash flows, along with our major new fee based projects continue to dramatically reduce exposure to commodity prices.
Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.