Peter Maurer Quotes

How do we build an intelligent plan for growth over decades while responding to citizen’s immediate demands for less inequality and more opportunity. We must do both.

I think in terms of 20-year horizons.

Our government is concerned about the future. Everything we do today is not aimed at tomorrow but rather at a future that preserves the living conditions of Brazilians.

Begin with the end in mind.

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future.

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

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.'

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

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

We're so used to thinking in the short term, and the minute you speak in more long-term language then you tend to get dismissed as utopian and so on. We have a real problem here in making long-term thinking respectable

Often, sustainability is discussed only in the context of energy. Energy sustainability is essential - but the word has a much broader meaning. It means long-term thinking about how we manage our businesses, invest in social spending, and plan for the future. This requires vision and leadership, and it requires citizen engagement.

I think long-term, not short-term.

Rather than play politics with funding our government, pitting one group against another, we should make strong investments in our future.

I think it's really important to have a long-term perspective.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.

Unfortunately, governments do not have a philanthropic approach towards future governments.

An important task for government is to think about the future as well as to learn from the past, and the Foresight Programme, run by the Government Office for Science, helps in the development of this thinking.

We have to support the well-being of society.

You always look ahead to what you'll do next.

An entrepreneur never thinks of quarter-on-quarter; he thinks for 25 years, 50 years.

Globalization can be shaped to ensure that people matter.

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.