John Naisbitt Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

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

The future is embedded in the present.

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

In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.

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

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

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

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

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

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

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

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

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

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