Mark Rutte Quotes

When you're up against the clock and break-outs are happening, all the time, and it's literally rushing in on you, you do what you have to do.

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.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.

I've always wanted to do things as fast as possible.

I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.

The time when people really want government is in an emergency.

To be effective, we must also be fast, because everything is happening faster.

As a politician, you can run from your problems or run toward your problems.

The Nation trembled on the brink. Events moved with such speed that it was necessary to decide to act on the instant, as each successive crisis arose.

The longer it takes to respond to a major development or crisis, the higher the chance of violence being seen as the only answer.

To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

Be quick without hurrying.

Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

We have only two modes - complacency and panic.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

Hurry up, please, its time.