Quotes About Contingency

The lesson here is that we shouldn't wait to be forced to find a Plan B. We should always be doing some exploration, especially because sometimes Plan B can turn out to be better than the thing you're already pursuing.

to come up with ways a decision or plan can go bad, so the team can anticipate and account for them.

A premortem is an investigation into something awful, but before it happens.

The immediate contingency overtook him, pulling him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.

I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France.

have an exit strategy. Just in case your current plan doesn't work, always know what your endgame is and where you're going next.

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.

Success in life is defined by how well you deal with plan B.

Indoors herself, partaking of tea with old Mrs Butterworth, she reflected that it is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an irruption of the audience onto the stage, and all our carefully planned gestures mean nothing, or mean too much.

I think having a back-up plan is never a bad thing. I would hate to be a male footballer and look back on 15 years of my career and think, 'Oh well, I've got a lot a money but what now?'

We're professional footballers and we just have to be prepared for anything that could happen.

It's didn't take a genis tactician to see that failure was imminent, Alyss more powerful that Arch had supposed. He would have to focus on his contingency plan and let the Glass Eyes attack on Wonderland fizzle out--a circunstance mildly disapointing, but not worrisome. Such a strategist was the king that he had a contingency plan for his contingency plan, and even, if circunstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.

So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather.

There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas.

If there was a risk that the vendor wouldn't come through for you, then you should have had a contingency plan.

You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger. I have always considered that a good habit

We do need to plan ahead, don't we, in life? I have spare tire on my car. I also have life insurance. I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for.

What happens to our account if Goldman Sachs New York is destroyed by a terrorist nuclear bomb smuggled into New York Harbor?" Their reply was: "We have duplicate records stored underground in Iron Mountain, Colorado.

In a world where Murphy's Law reigned, be prepared for all contingencies at all times.

a world where Murphy's Law reigned, be prepared for all contingencies at all times.

When planning for the future, it might be useful to follow the Stoics' suggestion of adding to our intention a tag like 'if nothing prevents' – a secular version of 'God willing

Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.

But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.