John Naisbitt Quotes

Countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

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

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

The modernization of Asia will forever reshape the world as we move toward the next millennium.

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.

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.

Globalization is a bottom-up phenomenon with all actions initiated by milions of individuals, the sum total of which is globalization. No one is in charge, and no one can anticipate what the sum of all the individual initiatives will be before the result manifest. A global economy can only be the result of spontaneous order.

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

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

The future is embedded in the present.

Don't get so far in front of the parade that no one knows you're in the parade.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

America is a bottom-up society, where new trends and ideas begin in cities and local communities ... My colleagues and I have studied this great country by reading its newspapers. We have discovered that trends are generated from the bottom up.

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

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

I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.

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

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.