George Meredith Quotes

I’ve worked as a leader for many years and I’ve always trained myself to be prepared for the worst.

When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk.

Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

To truly prepare for the unexpected, you've got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open so when the door of opportunity opens, you're close enough to squeeze through.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

My only "business plan" was to get lucky.

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

You see people who get so many big opportunities, and they take them, and they're not ready.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.

Dhoni Is The Best Captain I Have Played Under

I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck.

I was always in the right place at the right time, always willing to take advantage of an opportunity.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.

I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory'.

The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?

We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this connection is the trust which we must have in our lieutenants. consequently, it is important to choose men on whom we can rely and to put aside all other considerations. if we have made appropriate preparations, taking into account all possible misfortunes, so that we shall not be lost immediately if they occur, we must boldly advance into the shadows of uncertainty.