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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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Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

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

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– Charles Darwin

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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"

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Thomas Edison

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

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

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

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson