Tony Mendez Quotes

If you're not ready the moment things happen, then you're irrelevant, you might as well not go.

What I care about is maximum information.

To be effective, we must also be fast, because everything is happening faster.

Things change very quickly. You have to be prepared and ready and on your toes at all times.

I keep my eyes clear and I hit 'em where they ain't.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

Better reap two days too soon than one day too late

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it.

Intelligence always carries uncertainties. That is the nature of the beast.

Both my own process and that of the publishing industry are just too slow to do anything other than play catch-up when it comes to anticipating change.

We're always skating to wherever the puck is going.

If I'm called on, I want to be ready and efficient.

Whenever my number is called, I'll be ready always.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

I think there's data, and then there's information that comes from data, and then there's knowledge that comes from information. And then, after knowledge, there is wisdom. I am interested in how to get from data to wisdom.

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

Forewarn'd, forearm'd.

Being too early is indistinguishable from being wrong.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is required when you get there.