Charles E. Wilson Quotes

The challenge of our times is to leave nothing to chance.

Relying on luck … does not constitute a policy.

A man may take measures to secure the happy action and to guard against the unhappy action.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

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

You just need a good plan and then a back-up plan!

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

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

I'm pretty good at thinking about everything - all of my consequences - before I make a decision, and I think about everything that's going to happen because of that decision. I'm a Libra, and I'm very strategic.

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

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.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Always have a backup plan.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

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.

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

In the military we plan for the worst case, because we have learned that if you do not, you will be surprised.

We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur .

Fully consider the future and the immediate results of all undertakings, and the good and bad sides of all past actions.

We can't continue to always base our strategy on the fact that the other guy is going to mess up all the time.

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