In fact I believe the first companies that make an effort to develop an authentic transparent and meaningful social contract with their fans and customers will turn out to be the ones that are the most successful in the future. While brands that refuse to make the effort will lose stature and customer loyalty.
As more people use social media to tell the story of the future the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.
My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.
The future is built on brains not prom court as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
Why not invest in the future of music instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to and the last duty done.
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.
Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.