Wolfgang Schauble Quotes

When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future war will prove erroneous. What is important, however, is to not be so far off the mark that visions of the future run counter to the very nature of war and render American forces unable to adapt to unforeseen challenges.

I just deal with what's at hand.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

There are only two kinds of plans. Plans that might work and plans that won't work... you have to take a plan that might work and make it work.

I am an expert in the 'art of the possible.'

I realize I'm an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part.

The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.

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

A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.

People say to me, 'What are you going to be doing in five years?' The thing is, I don't care! It's what I'm doing today that matters.

We don't talk about next year. We talk about today, and we talk about the next game. And that's all we can really control. The rest of it will take care of itself.

Look several months ahead, see where the obstacles lie, and figure out ways to overcome them.

If you think two steps ahead, you forget what's important in the now.

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.

Having a wheel mentality is paramount. It gives you time and space.

I am not a five-year-plan type. I tend to put one foot in front of the other and to allow things to unfold.

I have always been the kind of guy who just takes it one day at a time.

I've always told my children that once they go out into the world, they must have two heads and two minds: one to keep grounded, the other to deal with corporate America.

Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. So I've just always been someone that's sort of reassessed where I'm at, and set goals that are realistic. And luckily, I've had plenty of chances to recalibrate and adjust, and good fortune's come my way.

To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.