Lao Tzu Quotes

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

We must solve problems before they occur, rather than scrambling to deal with crises after they erupt..

The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

I'd say if you wanted to forestall bad events, the best thing to do is anticipate them and try to correct them before they get close.

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.

As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

There is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there's one thing I've learned throughout my work in finance, government, and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage.

I grew up military but have met very few women that have a mission plan for when things don't work out. I attack everything like that.

If I hear something's not quite going right, then I'm there quicker than if I hear something's going wrong.

You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem. Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.

Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place?

The earlier you start to solve a problem, the less draconian the solution needs to be.

It is axiomatic in politics that the earlier one addresses a problem, the more the alternatives and the easier the solutions.

The art of government is to deal with threats before they become overwhelming.

Crisis management … is the worst type of policy because you will miss things.

You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive.