Brad Feld Quotes

The actions you plan to take and the actions you actually decide to take [in a crisis] are not always the same.

American government has usually been pretty good in a crisis and pretty lousy at all other times.

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

When there is a crisis, how you handle the crisis is just as important as the crisis.

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

Emergency does not create power.

You take care of emergencies first—in life and in politics.

The nation’s disaster mechanisms do not seem to be in the hands of those who know how to use them.

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

In our government we drive decisions either by leadership of by crises. If the leadership is not there, we rely on crises.

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.

I think we live in a constant state of emergency.

My theory on an existing crisis is that you have to be very strategic about each case's unique elements. If a crisis involves a legal component, you need a communication strategy that complements the company's legal objective. A strategy for a plea deal is different than a case going to trial.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

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

Leadership matters and solving things before a crisis is important.

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

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.

But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane season that is 100 days away. And we don't have a lot of time to waste before we start to address that next set of challenges.

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

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

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

What you say and do in a crisis matters.

Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

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