Gloria Swanson Quotes

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

We've gotta be trying to think of what's coming next before it comes next.

We need to think the worst in order to avoid it.

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

I'm a tennis fan, so I like Roger Federer. He's always two or three steps ahead, so he's hitting a shot, but he's also thinking about the next two shots. So I try to be in that frame of mind - to always be ahead.

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.

I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.

The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.

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.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

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

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

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

I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.

Change before you have to.

In order to succeed it is not necessary to be much cleverer than other people. All you have to do is be one day ahead of them.

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

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who see it coming and jump aside.

The international community spends much more time and resources managing crises than preventing them. But TV cameras are seldom there when a conflict is avoided, so it is difficult for governments and international organizations to make prevention a priority.

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 the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.

With my position, you have to kind of be three steps ahead of your opponent.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'