Anticipating Problems Quotes

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.

You've got to be able to act when it's necessary to act. And you've got to be able to act where the threat is.

Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow so that everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.

If you wait for people to come to you, you'll only get small problems. You must go and find them. The big problems are where people don't realize they have one in the first place.

Deal with it before it happens. Set things in order before there is confusion.

It's better to prepare than to repair.

In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities.

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay

Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.

I'm always very even-keeled, and I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.