Quotes About Crisis

If they don't act, we will. Shame on them but we cannot sit around and watch our environment deteriorate and put this world in jeopardy. We are willing to stand up, we think it is one of the seminal issues of our time.

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

In time of crisis it is better to do any intelligent thing quickly than to hesitate, searching for the ideal.

Remember: You don't want to be meeting your neighbours for the first time in the middle of the night when your house is burning

If you have inherited a disaster—the classic burning platform—you may be creating value from the moment your appointment is announced.

The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear.

Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet. - Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

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.

According to a survey in the Economist, the United States was ranked 55th in the world in terms of acute care beds per capita,706 comparable more to the developing world than to Europe, which has about twice the number of population-adjusted beds.707 Over the past generation, wrote the editor of Lancet, "the U.S. public health system has been slowly and quietly falling apart.

Weak men create hard times.

this sounds like a Ponzi scheme it is because it is the mother of all Ponzi schemes. A merry go around of Ponzi Austerity which, interestingly, left both the insolvent banks and the insolvent Greek state a little more… insolvent

Instead of restructuring economies with a clean slate to resume progress, the financial class is using today's debt crisis to vest itself as the new elite to rule the remainder of the 21st century. To consolidate their position, financiers are sponsoring a property grab – privatization

financial crisis, something bigger is at stake. The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don't belong.

Today, it is better to characterize not-so-bold crisis reactions by the White House as "cautious," "incremental," "selectively engaged," "pragmatically realistic," or "interest-based.

through phase draws accusations of wavering and weakness. Critics who shout, "Do something!" usually haven't a clue that every forceful action in the crisis du jour can have untoward consequences. Muddling reflects the reality of crisis decision making, but it doesn't readily fit popular perceptions of leadership, especially when magnified

In real crises, the successful leaders are usually the ones who cope best with ignorance and error.

History has proven that Truman deserves credit for containing Soviet expansion on several fronts, including Korea, despite his missteps during the crisis.

In the years since, rule number one in crisis management, whether in the White House or during run-of-the-mill Washington scandals, has been "Tell the truth and tell it early.

History teaches us that all ruling elites try to portray themselves as the natural and durable social order, even ones that are in serious crisis, that threaten to devour their environmental base in order to continually recreate their hierarchical structure of power and privilege. And all ruling elites are scornful and intolerant of alternative viewpoints.

Gentlemen,' the professor said gravely. 'You must stop this madman. If you do not, you are looking at a doomsday scenario of apocalyptic proportions.

Aubrey Fitzwilliam knew that crisis was another word for opportunity.

environmental apocalypse?

Greta Thunberg, in 2019. "I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic."20

Drug overdoses are today the number one cause of accidental death in the United States as a result of America's historic addiction and overdose epidemic.* Overdose deaths rose from 17,415 in 2000 to 93,330 in 2020, a 536 percent increase.30 Significantly more people die of drug overdoses today than of homicide (13,927 in 2019) or car accidents (36,096 in 2019).31 The overdose crisis is worse in San Francisco than in other cities.