1. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” (Dennis Gabor)

2. “The future is like heaven – everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.” (James Baldwin)

3. “When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.” (Chinese Proverb)

4. “To predict the future, we need logic; but we also need faith and imagination, which can sometimes defy logic itself.” (Arthur C Clarke)

5. “The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.” (Paul Valery)

(Borrowed with pride from all over the place)

1. “There are no facts, only interpretations.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

2. “You know my method. It is founded on the observance of trifles.” (Sherlock Holmes)

3. “Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.” (Sun Tzu)

4. “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” (Aldous Huxley)

5. “To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.” (John Burroughs)

(Borrowed with pride from all over the place)

1. “When the rate of change inside the company is exceeded by the rate of change outside the company, the end is near.” (Jack Welch, Chairman of GE)

2. “Change is easy. Change is obvious. We all see this inevitability, we all believe in it. Until it has to happen. Until we touch it. Then we all find reason to avoid it, to postpone it, to resist it. Suddenly the status quo becomes more comfortable.” (John Smale)

3. “A firm must unlearn its past to find its future.” (Hamel & Pralahad)

4. “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself” (Abraham H. Maslow)

5. “Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” (Saint Francis of Assisi)

(Borrowed with pride from all over the place)

1. “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” (Jonathan Swift)

2. “The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.” (Vance Havne)

3. “All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” (Sun Tzu)

4. “Strategy is revolution – everything else is tactics.” (Gary Hamel)

5. “It is more important to do what is strategically right than what is immediately profitable.” (Philip Kotler)

(Borrowed with pride from all over the place)

1. “A chicken is an egg’s way of making another egg.” (Samuel Butler)

2. “Always design a thing by considering it in its larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.” (Frank Lloyd Wright)

3. “We are not retreating, we are merely attacking in another direction” (Major General Oliver Smith)

4. “It’s easy, I simply get a chisel and chip away anything that doesn’t look like a lion” (Pablo Picasso on how a block of stone could become a lion)

5. “Buyers don’t buy quarter-inch drills, they buy quarter-inch holes” (Theodore Levitt)

(Borrowed with pride from all over the place)