Paul Ince Quotes

It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.

I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

WCW wasn't what I thought it should be. I thought it could be better. I would make suggestions, but nobody would want to hear them. They think you want their job. Please. It would be easier doing their job because they're used to doing nothing.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

We always fight the last war.

Reducing future risks requires paying some immediate costs.

The bureaucracy needs to do more than one thing at a time. It’s appropriate to save people with helicopters, but it can’t be done to the exclusion of everything else.

People are dying in this country. I am begging, begging anyone that can hear us, to save us from dying. If anybody out there is listening to us, we are dying and you are killing us with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy... This is what we got last night: four pallets of water, three pallets of meals, and 12 pallets of infant food — which, I gave them to the people of Comerio, where people are drinking off a creek. So I am done being polite. I am done being politically correct. I am mad as hell. We are dying here. And I cannot fathom the thought that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out the logistics for a small island of 100 miles by 35 miles. So, mayday, we are in trouble.

When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.

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

If one sees far, structural changes that come with temporary disruptions can be growth- and efficiency-augmenting in the medium to long term.

I grew up military but have met very few women that have a mission plan for when things don't work out. I attack everything like that.

It's as much looking out your rear-view mirror as the windshield. You want to make sure you put your car in front of the right line. You're constantly looking behind you.

Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.

He who fails to plan is planning to fail.

Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.

It's insane how quickly everything's changed. I always feel like I'm running hard to catch up.

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.