49 Quotes by John Naisbitt

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

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.