John Naisbitt

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“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”

― John Naisbitt

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

― John Naisbitt

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"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

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"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

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"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."

― John Naisbitt

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

― John Naisbitt

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"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

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

― John Naisbitt

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

― John Naisbitt

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

― John Naisbitt

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"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

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

― John Naisbitt