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Chris Carbone, Futurist

Chris Carbone has worked in trend and foresight consulting for over a decade, serving clients from Fortune 500 corporation and foreign and US government agencies. During this time he has researched and authored dozens of reports and scenarios on wide-ranging topics…from the future of leisure and play, to the future of urban mobility, to emerging consumer lifestyles in China.

Chris has been quoted in numerous publications including The Miami Herald, The Washington Post Express, and Fast Company, and appeared on the CBS Early Show. He currently oversees Innovaro’s two multi-client research projects—Global Lifestyles and Technology Foresight—and contributes to the firm’s custom engagements.

Chris has an MBA from Johns Hopkins University with a concentration in marketing, and received his undergraduate degree in history from Gettysburg College. For more information, contact him at chris.carbone@innovaro.com.

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Innovaro Insight & Research helps organizations understand and shape the future of their business. Through its syndicated and custom research services it provides actionable business insights to help clients uncover emerging consumer needs and behaviors, anticipate and seize growth opportunities, define critical emerging issues shaping the future of their industry, mitigate risk, and enrich decision-making. For more information visit /www.innovaro.com.

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison