Contingency Planning Quotes

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .

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

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

It pays to be prepared.

It's part of the beauty of the job in dealing with this is you have to have a plan, and that's why you can't only train 11 players; you train your whole team.

Actions can have unintended adverse consequences.

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

We necessarily operate in an environment in which there's a great deal of uncertainty. In such an environment, it makes sense to use a risk-management approach to identify and avoid the big mistakes. That's one reason I favor a cautious approach.

Always have a backup plan.

We cannot protect everything, all of the time.

In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life ... To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

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

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Although the Fed has subjected banks’ portfolios to stress tests to measure the effect of rising interest rates and investment losses, the results might not have shown the whole picture: U.S. banks, particularly small and medium-sized ones, may not have enough capital to maintain solvency and liquidity should their risky loans and investments fail in large numbers. The same is true of the stress tests that the ECB has performed in Europe,

As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station.

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

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

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

Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it

If you get too excited about any one interview, you're making a mistake, because people do cancel.

A wise man, when he writes a book, sets forth his arguments fully and clearly; an enlightened ruler, when he makes his laws, sees to it that every contingency is provided for in detail.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.