Proactive Strategies Quotes

Adapt or Die

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

A big challenge in combating terrorism is learning how to think about things that we can't imagine.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

I think the hardest thing that, historically, the industry may have relied upon is that we can't control weather, we can't control air traffic control, and use that at the end of the day as an excuse. Things do happen - we know they happen. We don't exactly know when they are going to happen, but we should definitely be prepped.

Leadership is failing. And Donald Trump is going to take a holistic approach to how we focus on these things, and he's not going to allow disparate activities in the communities to define everything.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Valdez was a devastating experience for our corporation. What emerged from that was a commitment to develop a systematic approach to managing risk in advance.

We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Democratic societies are slow to respond to gathering treats.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

Preventive policies are greatly superior to reactive ones.

Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.

Direct threats require decisive action.

I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

Make in India will not work if we take a conventional linear approach. It has to be a leapfrogging into the future, and India is ideally placed to do this.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care.

I think we're going to have to take a hard look about what more we can do to prevent this kind of lone wolf attack.