Manu Quotes

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit. It is but common prudence to see the way out before we venture in.

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

People (political and military leaders) much prefer to speak of what they are going to do rather than what the outcome will be.

Neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

The long view counts.

Sometimes you’ve got to think about how it will look later

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.

The need to incorporate longer term time scales into our societal choices is very real—and right in the lap of our generation.

The pressure of time, is the overwhelming challenge for policymakers who must act on assessments that cannot be proved at the time and whose mistakes are irretrievable.

Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

If we want better results, we have to make better choices.

I'm pretty good at thinking about everything - all of my consequences - before I make a decision, and I think about everything that's going to happen because of that decision. I'm a Libra, and I'm very strategic.

How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.'

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

I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?