Crisis Management Quotes

• When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Speech to United Negro College Fund, Indianapolis, Ind., 12 Apr. 1959

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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• In crisis management, be quick with the facts, slow with the blame.

  Leonard Saffir

  Communication, Facts, Management

  Leonard Saffir, Jack Tarrant (1993). “Power Public Relations: How to Get PR to Work for You”, N T C Business Books

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• If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

  Stephen Covey

  Management, Crisis, Down The Road

  Stephen R. Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families”, p.195, St. Martin's Press

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• There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  The New York Times Magazine, June 01, 1969.

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• The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, Second Chance, Today

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• When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

  Magic Johnson

  Friends, Basketball, True Friend

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• More than ever before, crisis management, reconstruction and development demand a new level of cooperation between nations, and between nations and international organisations, where military and civilian instruments are applied in a coordinated way.

  Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

  Military, Development, Levels

  Speech at NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Madeira, www.nato.int. May 25, 2007.

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• Good governance is not fire-fighting or crisis-management. Instead of opting for ad-hoc solutions the need of the hour is to tackle the root cause of the problems.

  Narendra Modi

  Fighting, Fire, Roots

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• People mistake their love of the technology for it being a solution. Social media is the problem, not the solution, in crisis management. It's a problem if you use it to communicate in areas where you're dealing with incredibly intense emotions and very deep conflicts.

  Eric Dezenhall

  Mistake, Technology, Media

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• I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Thinking, Sky, Looks

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• We continue to go from crisis to crisis, whether it is electricity or whether it is gas prices. We need comprehensive solutions, not patchwork crisis management. We wouldn't be in this situation today if Senate Democrats weren't holding up the national energy plan that the president proposed back in May of 2001.

  Scott McClellan

  President, May, Today

  "White House: Bush 'disappointed' in OPEC" by Dana Bash and Jennifer Yuille, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2004.

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• Being constantly the hub of a network of potential interruptions provides the excitement and importance of crisis management. As well as the false sense of efficiency in multitasking, there is the false sense of urgency in multi-interrupt processing.

  Michael Foley

  Multitasking, Management, Excitement

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Foreign policy commands attention when it's crisis management. A street revolt breaks out in Egypt or Libya or Kiev and everyone asks, how should the president respond? Now these are important parts of America's role in the world, but they are essentially reactive and tactical. The broader challenge is to lay down a longer-term strategy that endures after the crisis of the moment.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Egypt, America, Challenges

  "Fareed Zakaria GPS", www.cnn.com. April 27, 2014.

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• With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.

  Lawrence Summers

  Real, Oil, Management Skills

  "Watching the Yellow Flags" by David Ignatius, www.washingtonpost.com. May 31, 2006.

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