John Naisbitt Quotes

• Strategic planning is worthless — unless there is first a strategic vision.

  John Naisbitt

  Topics in Vision, Wisdom

  Tags in Plans

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

  John Naisbitt

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

  John Naisbitt

• Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

  John Naisbitt

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

  John Naisbitt

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

  John Naisbitt

• 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

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

  John Naisbitt

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

  John Naisbitt

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

  John Naisbitt

• 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

• 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

  Topics in Humanity, Technology

• We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

  John Naisbitt

  Topics in Confusion, Knowledge

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty

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

  John Naisbitt

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Intuition

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

  John Naisbitt

  Topics in Leadership

John Naisbitt (15)

Birth:	15th January, 1929
Nationality:	Armenian
Profession:	Author

About

John Naisbitt was born in Utah, USA. He is an American author and public speaker in the area of futures studies. He studied at Harvard University and Cornell University. He earned a BA degree from the University of Utah in 1952. He gained business experience working for IBM and Eastman Kodak. In 1968 he founded his own company, the Urban Research Corporation. He founded the Naisbitt China Institute, a non-profit, independent research institution studying the social, cultural and economic transformation of China located at Tianjin University. He was a former visiting fellow at Harvard University, visiting professor at Moscow State University, and faculty member at Nanjing University in China. He has written several books include: Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives, Megatrends 2000 (with Patricia Aburdene), Megatrends for Women (with Patricia Aburdene), Global paradox, Megatrends Asia, High Tech High Touch, Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future, and China's Megatrends (with Doris Naisbitt).

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