Charles E. Schumer Quotes

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

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

This is something that baffles me about managers: if you know the formation that you will revert to if you are in trouble, why not start with it?

Precaution is better than a cure.

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

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.

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

We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.

No agency … wants an issue on the agenda unless it has an efficient and acceptable solution for it.

Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place?

The earlier you start to solve a problem, the less draconian the solution needs to be.

Part of the genius of diplomacy is to resolve issues before crises come along.

He who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

When a government faces an evil that might be avoided, the usual pattern is to first debate whether or not the evil is real or imagined; then determine how evil it really is; then is it an appropriate function of government to avoid it? Then what are the alternative ways to avoid it? Then what are the costs to avoid it? And finally, is the benefit of avoiding the evil worth the cost? In those cases where it is, it is by this time too late to avoid the evil and discussions shift to ameliorating the evil.

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

Because of the nature of this industry, it's a bit dangerous to think far ahead.

I will take the lead in turning risks into opportunities.

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

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

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

Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it.

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

Leadership matters and solving things before a crisis is important.

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.