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Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.
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To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions
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Trying to predict the future is a mug's game. But increasingly it's a game we all have to play because the world is changing so fast and we need to have some sort of idea of what the future's actually going to be like because we are going to have to live there, probably next week.
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Prediction is the best circus act of all. But it is just an act. It's a carny turn. Stop doing it.
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My own forecast? How about stressful with a hundred percent chance of freaking out.
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A potentially useful property of forecasts based on cointegration is that when extended some way ahead, the forecasts of the two series will form a constant ratio, as is expected by some asymptotic economic theory.
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Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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It is wrong to blame anyone for failing to forecast accurately in an unpredictable world. However, it seems fair to blame professionals for believing they can succeed in an impossible task. Claims
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The future is not to be forecast, but created.
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.
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If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.
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People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.
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Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.
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A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.
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That's really specific, ma'am. For a prediction, I mean."
"It's not a prediction."
"It's not? Then what is it?"
"It's what is.
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The best weather prediction for the present moment is to look out of the window!
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Management is prediction.
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It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
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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.
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We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future ...
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Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is forecasting, as is selling a stock for no apparent reason. Indeed, nearly all capital decisions made by most people are unconscious predictions.
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Predictions are predictions. If you could predict the stock market, you would be super rich. But I have to race the race. It doesn't matter what I've done over the last few years. I have to race at the Olympics.
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Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.
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The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It's about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal.
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.
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You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future
a good future, a useful future
and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future ... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.
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Study the past, if you would divine the future.
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The only thing I cannot predict is the future
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Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did
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I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that one great way to get an investment bank's name on business television is to hire a guy called a Chief Economist who will go and prognosticate.
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There is only one more thing for me to say: Please help make my forecast wrong. Together we could create a much better world.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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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.
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Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.
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The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate
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One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
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The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
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Find the pattern and anticipate them!
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
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The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved,
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follows: to understand the future to the point of being able to predict it, you need to incorporate elements from this future itself. If
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The best way to predict future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln
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I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.
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The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
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The ultimate goal of a meteorologist is to set up differential equations of the movements of the air and to obtain, as their integral, the general atmospheric circulation, and as particular integrals the cyclones, anticyclones, tornados, and thunderstorms.
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Predicting the future is a mug's game, but any game is improved when you can actually keep the score.
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As every entrepreneur and investor sifts through year-end data to predict the next trend or opportunity for financial success, there is a much easier way to accurately predict the future: hang out with those who are creating it.
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Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.
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You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.
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Who needs theory when you have so much information? But this is categorically the wrong attitude to take toward forecasting, especially in a field like economics where the data is so noisy.
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I can't predict the future.
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During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
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The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes ...
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All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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Learn to recognize omens, and follow them
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If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.
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And you should not expect much from pundits making long-term forecasts - although they may have valuable insights into the near future. The
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Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.
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Charts are great for predicting the past.
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It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.
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I'm a lousy predictor of the future.
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You can only predict things after they have happened.
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The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.
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In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future.
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Make a distinction between positive contingencies, and negative. Learn to distinguish between those human undertakings in which a lack of predictability has been extremely beneficial, and those where failure to understand the future has caused harm.
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You cannot predict the future.
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It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.
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Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.
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The best predictor of future events is probably past events.
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Correct predictions result in understanding. Incorrect predictions result in confusion and prompt you to pay attention.
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You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and you realize it's not a good idea to predict too far into the future.
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People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.
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Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
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What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when.
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He who aims to forecast fog, will have mist.
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You can't predict the future, but you can plan for it
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A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.
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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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The trend is, in fact, a statement of future prospects in the form of an exact prediction.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.
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Estimating is what you do when you don't know.
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Maybe we can't predict the future, but we can predict some things.
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You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?
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My track record is pretty good on predictions.
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There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average
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Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.
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predictably unpredictable
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Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted.
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It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong.
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Be a learning machine. What made you money last year, won't necessarily make you money this and next year.