Quotes About Contingency

This is called a stop loss, a predetermined exit point, a protection from the black swan.

The broader lesson—and one of the core lessons of personal finance—is that you should always insure yourself against any adverse contingency that you cannot comfortably afford to withstand. You should skip buying insurance on everything else.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

What, then, should we have learned from 1989? Perhaps, above all, that nothing is either necessary or inevitable.

The Marquis de Carabas always had a plan, and he always had a fallback plan; and beneath these plans he always had a real plan, one that he would not even let himself know about, for when the original plan and the fallback plan had both gone south.

There remains the unforseen. And the unforseen is never negligible.

It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Before you go on any mission, you need to understand what you know, identify what you don't know, and try to guess what could go wrong.

The essence of policy is its contingency; its success depends on the correctness of an estimate which is in part conjectural. The essence of bureaucracy is its quest for safety; its success is calculability . . . The attempt to conduct policy bureaucratically leads to a quest for calculability which tends to become a prisoner of events.

They've planned for every possible way out of here." But not , I thought, the impossible ways.

The fact is the constitution did not apply to any such contingency as the one existing from 1861 to 1865. Its framers never dreamed of such a contingency occurring. If they had foreseen it, the probabilities are they would have sanctioned the right of a State or States to withdraw rather than that there should be war between brothers.

What's the worst thing that can happen in terms of your client relationship? How can you prepare for that so that it will not occur?

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

A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.

Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing...

Call me crazy, but I think we do the best living when we have a Plan B.

Since the worst comes to the worst.

Terror attacks are now 'man-caused disasters.' And the 'global war on terror' is no more. It is an 'overseas contingency operation.' Nidal Hassan proudly tells a military court that he, a soldier of Allah, killed 13 American soldiers in the name of jihad. but the massacre remains officially classified as an act not of terrorism but of 'workplace violence.

I like to pretend that I'm covering my tracks, bracing for any contingency. Ready for the worst, and all that jazz. I always feel better if there's a plan in place. And in this case, the plan was, "Leave the blind guy in charge of the juvenile delinquents and everything will be just fine. Probably.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

Even the best plans can change if there's an accident.

That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.