Our company sees an opportunity in foresight that’s been overlooked among the failures of forecasters and futurists. Instead of predicting the future we focus on understanding a simple human condition: appetite.
Economics is the study of the principles that drive human choice. These timeless principles form the foundation of the analysis and frameworks we build for investors and companies seeking investment.
- Laurence J. Peter
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, June 1, 2008
You have to worry about things you can do something about.
- T.S. Eliot, Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
- Jim Collins, How the Mighty Fall
Collins advocates old-fashioned management virtues such as determination, discipline, calmness under pressure and strategic decision-making based on careful sifting of the evidence.
- Hugh McLeod, Gapingvoid
Never confuse the ability to look up answers with the ability to solve problems.
- Arie de Geus, Royal Dutch Shell
The only relevant discussions are those that shift the focus from whether something will happen to what to do if it did.
- Juan Enriquez, Mapping Knowledge
We are moving from an era of relative certainty ... to an era of probabilities.
- Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google Economist, February 27th, 2010
Data are widely available; what is scarce is the ability to extract wisdom from them.
- Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage
Unwillingness to choose results in mediocrity. Pursuing every advantage results in inconsistent action that achieves none.
- Eamonn Kelly, The Changing World of Risk
The ‘known’ is a diminishing source of competitive advantage. Successful futures will be forged through mastery of the unknown.