hindsight quotes

Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.