John Naisbitt Quotes

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

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

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

The more high technology around us, the more the need for human touch...HighTech/High Touch. The principle symbolizes the need for balance between our physical and spiritual reality.

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

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

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.

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

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

The bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smallest player.

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

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

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

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience.

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

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

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

The future is embedded in the present.

It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.

Think globally, act locally, think tribally, act universally.

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 most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.

The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it; what is happening in America is that those parades are getting smaller and smaller - and there are many more of them.

Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.

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.