Laura Chinchilla Quotes

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 doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.

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?

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.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for.

Always have a backup plan.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.

There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.

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

It comes down to the difference between what you were planning to do and what life throws at you and you have to end up doing. The one who knows how to improvise is the one who comes out ahead.

I learned one of the very important lessons in life in the 9/11 attacks. It's good to have a plan for your future; it's even better to write your plan in pencil.

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

I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.

It's always good to have different plans.

It is such an uncertain universe out there that you have to create what I call 'real' options and develop capabilities that will enable you to deal with an environment that will change anyway.

If you take control over those things you can, you are better able to negotiate the unexpected.

You need to plan your bowling. Whenever things are not working for you - like, if you don't get swing - then you have to be ready with a backup plan and try something else.

You can learn to prevent a storm, or you can learn to ride the storm. If you learn to ride the storm, the storm is not a problem anymore.

Everybody has to take curveballs as they come in life and hopefully have the ability to adjust their plans.

People with military experience seem to do very well in these situations. They've been taught that they can control their destiny, which is half the battle. They also have some experience in getting out of bad situations even if just through training. They know they have to make a plan and follow it and execute it.