Michael Bloomberg Quotes

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

Don’t ignore planning for unlikely events. Over long periods of time the highly improbable gets more probable to occur at least once.

We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur .

The military has to think in terms of worst case scenarios. In a sense, they have to play the pessimist.

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

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.

There is no question that FEMA and the National Emergency Response System did not fail America the day that Katrina hit. They failed the day before and the days before that.

Anything you say before a pandemic occurs sounds alarmist; anything you say after it occurs is inadequate.

To prepare for a disaster, practice the worst case scenario. We don’t usually do that.

We need to think the worst in order to avoid it.

The challenge of our times is to leave nothing to chance.

Crisis management … is the worst type of policy because you will miss things.

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?

We must prepare for everything.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans.

In the military we plan for the worst case, because we have learned that if you do not, you will be surprised.

Sometimes we have to think very clearly about the unthinkable because the unthinkable sometimes happens.

I’ve worked as a leader for many years and I’ve always trained myself to be prepared for the worst.

There is nothing we can do to assure that this will never happen, but there is a lot we can do to assure that it happens more rarely.

Get the hell off the beach!