John Naisbitt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- John Naisbitt

#Skills #Important #World
If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right, you will feel like you are walking across open fields, the perspective wide and your feet free to take any turn.
-- John Naisbitt

#Feet #Perspective #Fields
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
-- John Naisbitt

#Knowledge #Science #Information
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.
-- John Naisbitt

#Spiritual #Teacher #Philosophy
The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.
-- John Naisbitt

#Business #Hands #Information
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.
-- John Naisbitt

#Mean #Technology #Expanding
Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.
-- John Naisbitt

#Horse #Trends #Easier
Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.
-- John Naisbitt

#Business #Vision #Firsts
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...
-- John Naisbitt

#Spiritual #Two #People
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
-- John Naisbitt

#Wisdom #Data #Intuition
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
-- John Naisbitt

#Leadership #Funny Leadership #Parades
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.
-- John Naisbitt

#Sex #Government #Gone
The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.
-- John Naisbitt

#Technology #Rocks #Shopping
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.
-- John Naisbitt

#Spiritual #Technology #Balance
Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.
-- John Naisbitt

#Precious Things
We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
-- John Naisbitt

#Society #Shifting #Entrepreneurial
Value is what people are willing to pay for it.
-- John Naisbitt

#Inspirational #People #Pay
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.
-- John Naisbitt

#Lawyer #Mainstream #Beavers
The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.
-- John Naisbitt

#Future #Trying #Way
We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.
-- John Naisbitt

#Spiritual #Technology #Race
The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
-- John Naisbitt

#Skills #Important
The future is embedded in the present.
-- John Naisbitt

#Embedded
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
-- John Naisbitt

#Dinosaurs #Mergers #Appearance
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.
-- John Naisbitt

#Running #Acceptance #Self
The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.
-- John Naisbitt

#Order #Leader #Giver
In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.
-- John Naisbitt

#People #Quality
In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
-- John Naisbitt

#People #Tools #Growing
The economic borderlines of our world will not be drawn between countries, but around Economic Domains. Along the twin paths of globalization and decentralization, the economic pieces of the future are being assembled in a new way. Not what is produced by a country or in a country will be of importance, but the production within global Economic Domains, measured as Gross Domain Products. The global market demands a global sharing of talent. The consequence is Mass Customization of Talent and education as the number one economic priority for all countries
-- John Naisbitt

#Education #Country #Our World
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.
-- John Naisbitt

#Commitment #America #People

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