Jeb Bush Quotes

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

We find ourselves in places in the world where our interests require, maybe, limited application of force, involved in strange missions, missions difficult to define and state criteria and exit strategies. So it's much more difficult now. It's not that clear.

There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

Leaders need to be thinking constantly about what they're doing to create a basic sense of security and stability throughout an organization.

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

We cannot assume that past successes will insure future successes.

We have generals working on worst-case scenarios; we need statesmen on best cases.

We can't continue to always base our strategy on the fact that the other guy is going to mess up all the time.

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

Before going into a room, make sure you can get out again.

In most covert operations … particularly those that have a large paramilitary component, the planning for later stages is very incomplete. The outcome of the first stages of the operation is usually so difficult to predict that it wouldn't have seemed sensible to have planned the later stages. One can plan the first phases, but not what happens next

Statecraft, as these cases convincingly illustrate, is demanding and often exhausting work. There are risks, and success is not guaranteed. It requires major governmental and political resources and the same kind of hourly, year-round planning and execution as the conduct of a military campaign.

A campaign against terrorism requires checks on ”over stretch” and a viable exit strategy.

Relying on luck … does not constitute a policy.

What he's really talking about - and I'm speaking for Mike Flynn, not Donald Trump - is that he's saying, essentially, we have to have options. We have to have a lot of options. And, frankly, we do. We do have a lot of options.

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

I got an album concept called 'Exit Strategy,' that might be one of my last ones. It's a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don't wait till you're five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

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?

It's always good to have different plans.

You cannot change strategy due to a trend.

It's not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It's about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

Our businesses are stable, and Fortis is on a promising trajectory. I want to assure our business partners and colleagues that I will continue to guide the organization to realize its full potential.

Then you realize that the preparation and the planning of this small army of people trying to head to the single aim of creating a work that's going to excite people is very risky. Of course, the odds are that it's not going to work out because there are too many possibilities of it going wrong.

He who fails to plan is planning to fail.