Italian Proverb Quotes

Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently.

Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.

The people would think I was a fool for not having taken twice as much.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

If you don't learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Unfortunates learn from their own mistakes, and the lucky ones learn from other's mistakes.

It’s a huge country. Floods, fires, accidents. You worry, you make phone calls, you sort things out.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

We should have known better after the first war.

There is so much to sailing a ship. There's about a thousand different lines on a brig ship, and knowing what each one of those does, it takes a long time, and that's why you have these cabin boys that start on the ship, and they learn throughout the years, and that's why it takes so long to captain one.

Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.

I'm kind of the crisis communications person at 'SNL.' If there are fires to put out, they try and find me.

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.

If I'm ever concerned about something, I'll have security deal with it.

I do watch some of my losses, but it just makes me think, 'Well, you know, should have done this; could have done that.' But that's why I don't like watching it. It's a shoulda/coulda/woulda thing.

London is the headquarters of the International Maritime Organisation, the location of the largest insurance market, and houses a significant ship-broking community, apart from the many other professional services related to shipping.

As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.