Henry Paulson Quotes

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

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

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

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.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

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

If you're on a bus and going down a snowy mountain like in Tahoe, and the bus loses its brakes, where do you want to be sitting? Immediately, you all think, 'In the back.' But in the front would be the correct answer. As a quarterback, you want to take control of it.

Every time the country is in a crisis, I think and decide where is the best way to go. We have to always think of ways to overcome these limitations.

One of many strengths that I often see in successful women on Wall Street is a responsible balance between risk taking and risk mitigation - the ability to assess situations smartly and make the right medium-to-long-term decisions without being lured into reckless, short-term profit-taking.

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

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

Every business I don't know, if I spend enough time - a couple of months - I will know a lot. I know quite a lot about football now. I know the value of players, and we won't do stupid things.

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

You make the right decision for the long run. You manage for the long run, and you continue to move to higher value. That's what I think my job is.