A Quote by Warren Buffett

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

Warren Buffett

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Business Always Business World Clearer Mirror Rearview Rearview Mirror Than World

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Warren Buffett
American - Businessman
Born: August 30, 1930

See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

Joel Osteen

She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd always been the windshield type: gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. Mom throws me out? Gotta get some food and find a place to live. Husband dies? Gotta keep working, or I'll end up going crazy. Got some guy stalking me? Gotta figure out a way to stop it.

Nicholas Sparks

March on. Don't look in the rearview, just the windshield.

Josh Bowman

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

Colin Powell

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

Kinky Friedman

No matter what's behind us in the rearview mirror, it's always about what's next.

Dabo Swinney

I've never been a rearview mirror guy. I'm always looking forward, always looking downfield.

Jeff Jarrett

Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.

J. Courtney Sullivan

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.

Ann Voskamp

I never look in the rearview mirror.

Peter Guber

You can't see the future through a rearview mirror

Peter Lynch

We go forward looking in the rearview mirror.

Marshall McLuhan

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

Marshall McLuhan

It is undeniable that the French were in a better situation in 1960s then than they are today in 2017. I don't look in the rearview mirror. But there was no need for us to experience an end to social progress since then.