400 Timeless Quotes On Crisis Management And Leadership

1. “Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way.”

2. “Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it’s cattle, or horses, or men, the least government is the best government.”

3. “Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.”

4. “When we are experience shame we are often thrown into crisis mode...

5. “In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee – or laugh.” Robert Orben

6. “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

7. “Every crisis offers an opportunity to grow stronger and wiser; to reach deep within and discover a better you that will create a better outcome.”

8. “The analogy with the environment [crisis] is apt, because both forms of sustainability - human and environmental - have no market value, they cannot be bought and sold. Both fall into the category of what economists call the tragedy of the commons': in an unfettered market, they are subject to its depredations without any accounting for their true value. Just as the damage to the environment has become increasingly clear, so we will see in the coming decades a growing anxiety about the erosion of human sustainability as we witness an exponential rise in depression, stress and anxiety. It is the conditions of our working lives which are one of the main causes.”

9. “God loves to bring good out of bad. He loves to turn crucifixions into resurrections. Every obstacle is an opportunity. Every problem has potential. Every crisis is an opportunity for ministry. Every hurt God wants to use for His glory.”

10. Close scrutiny will show that most ‘crisis situations’ are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.” – Maxwell Maltz

11. A crisis highlights all of our fault lines. We can pretend that we have nothing to learn, or we can take this opportunity to own the truth and make a better future for ourselves and others.

12. “Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.”

13. “God loves to bring good out of bad. He loves to turn crucifixions into resurrections. Every obstacle is an opportunity. Every problem has potential. Every crisis is an opportunity for ministry. Every hurt God wants to use for His glory.” ~ Rick Warren

14. “Birth inequities don’t have to exist, but they do. We shouldn’t have a black maternal mortality crisis, but we do. Black mothers should feel empowered & supported throughout there pregnancy, birth and after delivery, but they often don’t, especially when interfacing with medical staff and navigating through our biased medical system. Black mothers, their babies and there families should be valued in society, but oten they are not. I am committed to changing the world we live in through my work as a birth doula and holding black mothers up in love, support, and empowerment. “- Celina Sargusingh Cruz, Birth Doula

15. “You get to know who you really are in a crisis.”

16. “Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.” – Ryan Reynolds

17. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

18. When written in Chinese the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

19. “If things are not going well for you—well, that might be because, as the most cynical of aphorisms has it, life sucks, and then you die. Before your crisis impels you to that hideous conclusion, however, you might consider the following: Life doesn’t have the problem. You do. At least that realization leaves you with some options. If your life is not going well, perhaps it is your current knowledge that is insufficient, not life itself. Perhaps your value structure needs some serious retooling. Perhaps what you want is blinding you to what else could be. Perhaps you are holding on to your desires, in the present, so tightly that you cannot see anything else — even what you truly need.”

20. You have to lead your organization out of a crisis. No organization was handled in a crisis, it was led. Be the leader that leads everyone out of trouble.

21. “Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.”

22. “The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life — knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.” Aristotle

23. For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build. - Author: Andrew Griffin

24. I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of a national emergency —even if I’m in a Cabinet meeting.

25. “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to our eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.” –Brooke Foss Westcott

26. “Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.” Sharon E. Rainey

27. “The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”

28. “I’ll just say, while we’re on the subject, I read his point about combating traditional threats. And I couldn’t help but think and hope that we’ve seen from other countries around the world, and I hope that our country will take action against Turkey and Azerbaijan for their unprovoked and deadly attacks on Armenians,” Belichick said. “We’ve seen that when a humanitarian crisis and things like that, like ethnic cleansing, go unpunished, that they just continue to happen. I hope that we can put a stop to that.”

29. “Actually, IBM went through a severe identity crisis. It almost missed the computer opportunity. It became capable of growth only through a palace coup which overthrew Thomas J. Watson, Sr., the company’s founder, its chief executive, and for long years the prophet of “data processing.”

30. “In the 21st century, a social media savant can do more harm than a trial attorney.” – Jonathan Bernstein of Bernstein Crisis Management Inc.

31. “Did you know that the Chinese symbol for ‘crisis’ includes a symbol which means ‘opportunity’? – Jane Revell & Susan Norman

32. “I’ve got some bad news and I’ve got some good news. Nothing lasts forever.” – Kate McGahan

33. “Leadership is turning crisis into opportunity, darkness into light, and hatred into love.”

34. Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in? - Author: Margaret Atwood

35. “Things may be falling apart, but the mind that is stayed on God will cause us to stand in the midst of pressures.”

36. Chronic pain patients like me are not the cause of the opioid crisis; only 22% of those who misuse opioids are prescribed them by a doctor, and only 13% of ER visits for opiate overdoses were chronic pain patients. Most chronic pain patients are rule-followers who just want to function. - Author: Sonya Huber

37. “Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”

38. “Never underestimate small news organizations. Social media and newswires can take your story global, fast.” – Rick Amme, Rick Amme & Associates

39. “No matter what, the very first piece of social media real estate I'd start with is a blog.” – Chris Brogan

40. “Victory or defeat is not determined at the moment of crisis, but rather in the long and unspectacular period of preparation.” ― Anonymous

41. “Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.” Phil McGraw

42. “In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love. —FRANK O’HARA”

43. “In a crisis, don’t hide behind anything or anybody. They’re going to find you anyway.” Bear Bryant

44. “We have a retirement crisis in America today not from a lack of money, but from a lack of vision.” — Dave Ramsey

45. “Whatever happens in the world happens as the will of God.” – Krishna in Bhagavad-Gita

46. 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. - Author: Lawrence Summers

47. “On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound. Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. You see without assistance from the eyes, over distances beyond the visual horizon. There are moments when existence appears independent even of the mind. The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values.

48. “Crisis forces commonality of purpose on one another.” – Michelle Dean

49. “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last, some crisis shows us what we have become.” ~ Brooke Westcott

50. “Most people, in a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class.”

51. “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”

52. “Heidi was coming up the hill. It must be her thousandth trip. She looked as if she needed a tow rope this time. She was carrying her own blankets back from the helicopter, having traded them for the blankets on board. She had obviously fallen in the mud. Both she and her blankets looked as if they had been mining for coal.

53. This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect. - Author: Jodi Picoult

54. “When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.”

55. “Never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Rahm Emanuel

56. “People don’t mind doing CPR on a crisis victim, but no person is equipped to be the constant lifeline to another.”

57. “In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path – the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.” Amit Ray

58. “Every time you meet a crisis and live through it, you make it simpler for the next time. If you draw back and say, “I am afraid to do that,” because you might do or say something wrong or you might make a mistake, you will become timid and negative as a person.”

59. “The future of America is bound up in the present crisis. If America is to remain a first-class nation, it cannot have a second-class citizenship.”

60. “Never let a good crisis go to waste. It’s the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential.”

61. Today's Arab crisis is not one of money, men, morale, land or resources ... The real crisis is rather one of leadership, management and perennial egotism. - Author: Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

62. It has transformed the way we live, work, communicate and even care for our patients. For Sentara, it has prompted us to evolve our organization’s processes, adapting practices to fit CDC guidelines and social distancing protocols while simultaneously addressing the needs this crisis presents for our patients and staff on the front lines. The pandemic has also forced a change in our operating and business model as we have stopped doing elective procedures to preserve critical bed capacity and staff protective supplies. It has resulted in a significant reduction in revenues and margin while we are staffing up for critically ill COVID-19 patients. This combination of actions are severely adverse economically to hospitals and health systems.

63. “Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.” — David Bowie

64. “When it comes to crisis communications, if you always focus on building a relationship with your customers, fans and followers, you will always find yourself communicating in the right direction.” – Melissa Agnes, Social Media Crisis Manager and Consultant, MelissaAgnes.com

65. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant.”

66. “Your role is to remind the Seeker of the wisdom and insights into crisis management that the archetypes of tarot can offer.”

67. I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects. - Author: Frantz Fanon

68. “The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I am, in every moment, capable of mustering the strength to survive again–or of tapping that strength in other good, productive, healthy ways.” Michele Rosenthal

69. “Being in the military taught me to risk it all early and to risk it all often. No matter how hard business gets, we are all coming home every night. The same isn’t always true overseas.

70. “You will come across obstacles in life -- fair and unfair. And you will discover, time and time again, that what matters most is not what these obstacles are but how we see them, how we react to them, and whether we keep our composure. You will learn that this reaction determines how successful we will be in overcoming -- or possibly thriving because of -- them. Where one person sees a crisis, another can see opportunity. Where one is blinded by success, another sees reality with ruthless objectivity. Where one loses control of emotions, another can remain calm.”

71. 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. - Author: Eric Dezenhall

72. The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you stick too rigidly to a 'No Drama' rule in the White House, you risk keeping reality at bay. Presidencies are always about crisis management. - Author: Maureen Dowd

73. “A leader without followers is simply a man taking a walk.”

74. The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

75. “Our techniques were the products of experiential learning; they were developed by agents in the field, negotiating through crisis and sharing stories of what succeeded and what failed. It was an iterative process, not an intellectual one, as we refined the tools we used day after day. And it was urgent. Our tools had to work, because if they didn’t someone died.”

76. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

77. “Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength. ” Ryan Holiday

78. If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road. - Author: Stephen Covey

79. “The secret of crisis management is not good vs. bad, it’s preventing the bad from getting worse.”

80. A 70th birthday is like a heads-up to brace yourself for the worst period of your life – the great midlife crisis. Happy birthday.

81. “Something good comes out of every crisis.” Dave Pelzer

82. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

83. This is phase when teenage kids and mortgage payments can start pushing someone towards the dreaded midlife crisis. Go on, write something nice on a card that conveys that the best in life still lies ahead. Whether it is for your friends, colleagues, husband, wife, son or daughter – make sure that your words inspire them to start living life to the fullest.

84. If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the ghosts or the vestiges of a much older, but still thoroughly American, form of public life, one centered not on public opinion but on religion. - Author: Jonathan Dee

85. “Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.” – Susan L. Taylor

86. “But improvisation will only bring you as far as the next crisis, and is never a substitute for thinking several steps ahead and planning to the end.”

87. “Good people turn to love, courage and kindness in times of crisis, not hate, fear and cruelty.” – Laurence Overmire

88. “In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.” John F. Kennedy

89. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

90. Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset. - Author: Andrew Griffin

91. “Bearing crisis upon crisis, we shall rise as creator.”

92. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

93. “Something good comes out of every crisis.” – Dave Pelzer

94. In crisis management, be quick with the facts, slow with the blame. - Author: Leonard Saffir

95. “One lesson from the occurrence of crises in the last century is that they are here to stay. The other aspect brought to light by the novel corona virus 2019 (COVID-19) is that personal or organizational experience cannot be a form of inoculation from future events that may present more crises.”

96. I'm going to make sure this car doesn't cause me or anyone else to get into a crisis.

97. “You do not need to be in a crisis or hit rock bottom to deserve therapy.” – Mao Beckett

98. “We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. … And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself.” — Greta Thunberg

99. My advice is to avoid that temptation. As the COVID-19 outbreak became real, our leadership team turned to the guiding principles we established years ago. While we’ve shifted priorities, adhering to these principles helps us remain disciplined and gives us a framework for decision-making. As a result, our franchise partners and team members understand and embrace the actions we are taking. A&W is weathering the crisis well because of that. I believe we will emerge an even stronger organization.” ~ Kevin Bazner, President & CEO, A&W Restaurants

100. “In a crisis, the inevitable suffering that life entails can rapidly make a mockery of the idea that happiness is the proper pursuit of the individual.” – Jordan Peterson

101. “When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters―one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” ―John F. Kennedy

102. “The leadership skills I learned [in the military] helped me to be confident and to grow the business. Another thing is by being worldly, you learn to be diverse with people and respect their culture. When you've been living in different countries, you have a different perspective on the world. I think that helped me network with a lot of people in a way that some people may not be able to.

103. “Whatever the crisis, the fire of love will melt it.”

104. “When written in Chinese the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” – John F. Kennedy

105. “When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”

106. “Butler took the stairs four at a time. It was possibly the first time he had ever abandoned Master Artemis in a time of crisis. But Juliet was family, and there was obviously something seriously wrong with his baby sister. That fairy had said something to her, and now she was just sitting in the cell giggling. Butler feared the worst. If anything were to happen to Juliet, he didn’t know how he’d live with himself.”

107. “My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.” – Ellen Willis

108. “People may call what happens at midlife “a crisis,” but it’s not. It’s an unraveling—a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you’re “supposed” to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.”

109. “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

110. Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

111. “How do we care for our mind, especially in the time of crisis, pressures, uncertainties, and adversities? The answer is found in what we choose to SET OUR MIND UPON!”―Benjamin Suulola

112. “In such crisis our best friends, soul sister or brother who are appointed by God as guardian angels in our life, take charge to guide us.” – Shashi Dip

113. The great thing about baseball is there’s a crisis every day. – Gabe Paul

114. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

115. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things.”

116. Evidently some misguided rustic had herded diarrhetic cattle through the place and the management had yet to come to terms with the crisis. - Author: Anonymous

117. “In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.”

118. “It’s becoming very clear that our IT ecosystem is a vital link to enable companies to continue with work-from-home efforts. Vendors, distribution and resellers are enabling the world to be able to do that. ... The community becomes very small and tight when crisis emerges. We turn to one another with any challenges and issues and hope to resolve them. ... I would encourage any part of the ecosystem to reach out. If Tech Data can assist in any way, we’re happy to help.”

119. “When a group or community doesn’t tolerate dissent and disagreement, it forgoes any experience of inextricable connection. There is no true belonging, only an unspoken treaty to hate the same people. This fuels our spiritual crisis of disconnection.”

120. “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” – Philippians 4:6-7

121. “If you are a corporate executive, you need to make crisis preparedness and crisis management an integral part of your business planning.” – Rich Klein of LawFirmsPR

122. You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

123. “The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs. how little she can survive on; she is out. in a sense. to discredit her nurturers. while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.” – Rachel Cusk

124. “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly. as we wake or sleep. we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become. ”

125. “In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path – the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.” – Amit Ray

126. 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. - Author: Jaap De Hoop Scheffer

127. “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

128. China could easily emerge as the great winner if the Chinese leaders handle the situation well. On the other hand, they could also turn out to be the biggest losers if they handle it poorly. If the management turns out be wrong, this could lead to a political crisis in China. - Author: George Soros

129. “Victory or defeat is not determined at the moment of crisis, but rather in the long and unspectacular period of preparation.”

130. “Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.”

131. “Close scrutiny will show that most ‘crisis situations’ are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.” Maxwell Maltz

132. American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace. - Author: George W. Bush

133. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

134. “Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn’t make any difference what the crisis is.” Jack Nicklaus

135. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

136. “A leader should be able to foresee crisis situations and be proactive” ~ Invajy

137. “The secret of crisis management is not good vs. bad, it’s preventing the bad from getting worse.” – Andy Gilman

138. “I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.”

139. “If you can't handle my shame then you don't deserve to be part of my fame.”

140. “Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your spouse's primary love language is receiving gifts”

141. “After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.” ~ Daniel Kahneman

142. I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don't have the mobility, energy or life options I used to have. I work hard to manage the pain, and I want the medical system to be a respectful and effective partner, not a jailer. The opioid crisis is not my doing. - Author: Sonya Huber

143. Something good comes out of every crisis.” – Dave Pelzer

144. “Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis – a good hot cup of coffee.” — Alexander King

145. “This extraordinary and overwhelming crisis demands more of our top executives as they help lead our response. The best will advance the interests of others knowing that it makes us all better off”

146. “In business and in all of life, a major part of effective crisis management is acknowledging the existence of the bad things that are happening. Once you have that acceptance, you can begin to strategize step by step how to manage the crisis and emerge from the crisis into a more favorable reality. But if you pretend like the bad things aren't happening, they magnify the crisis.”

147. “Any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.”

148. “Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.” Hippocrates

149. “A crisis that recurs a second time is a crisis that must not occur again.”

150. “Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.”

151. “for six straight hours, relieved periodically by two FBI agents who were learning crisis negotiation, I spoke through the apartment door. I used my late-night FM DJ voice. I didn’t give orders in my DJ voice, or ask what the fugitives wanted. Instead, I imagined myself in their place. “It looks like you don’t want to come out,” I said repeatedly. “It seems like you worry that if you open the door, we’ll come in with guns blazing. It looks like you don’t want to go back to jail.” For six hours, we got no response. The FBI coaches loved my DJ voice. But was it working? And then, when we were almost completely convinced that no one was inside, a sniper on an adjacent building radioed that he saw one of the curtains in the apartment move. The front door of the apartment slowly opened. A woman emerged with her hands in front of her. I continued talking. All three fugitives came out. None of them said a word until we had them in handcuffs. Then I asked them the question that was most nagging me: Why did they come out after six hours of radio silence? Why did they finally give in? All three gave me the same answer. “We didn’t want to get caught or get shot, but you calmed us down,” they said. “We finally believed you wouldn’t go away, so we just came out.”

152. A 35th birthday is like a heads-up to brace yourself for the worst period of your life – the great midlife crisis. Happy birthday.

153. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

154. I really do believe the final act in play is a crisis in our financial institutions, which are doing such dumb, dumb things, - Author: Michael Lewis

155. Podcast EP 019 Αντώνης Σαμοθράκης, ένα μυαλό στη Τεχεράνη

156. “So George talked about the two aspects of every crisis: danger and opportunity. If you have the right mind-set, he said, you can make the crisis work for you. You have the chance to create a new identity for the team that will be even stronger than before.”

157. “He was a sincere husband who failed to understand the tremendous power of presence. His being there for his wife was more important than anything else in her mind. Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your spouse’s primary love language is receiving gifts. Your body becomes the symbol of your love. Remove the symbol, and the sense of love evaporates.”

158. “Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your spouse’s primary love language is receiving gifts. Your body becomes the symbol of your love.”

159. “Don’t wait for a crisis to realize what matters most. Put yourself first right now. Because right now is all we have.” – Brittany Burgunder

160. The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

161. Don't wait for a disaster to get to know your neighbors.

162. “I rarely read political books, but I can’t stop thinking about Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed. In context, he’s writing about the social crisis of modern America, but honestly, I can’t think of a better one-paragraph biblical theology of the world: In this world, gratitude to the past and obligations to the future are replaced by a nearly universal pursuit of immediate gratification: culture, rather than imparting the wisdom and experience of the past so as to cultivate virtues of self-restraint and civility, becomes synonymous with hedonic titillation, visceral crudeness, and distraction, all oriented toward promoting consumption, appetite, and detachment. As a result, superficially self-maximizing, socially destructive behaviors begin to dominate society.14”

163. “Remember, too, that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive." The turning point in the lives of those who succeed, usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "other selves.”

164. Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to our eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.” –Brooke Foss Westcott

165. “Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I’ve become a juggler, I suppose. It’s all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes, I do.” – Jane Seymour

166. “We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.” ~ Margaret Mead

167. What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture ... In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business. - Author: Henry Mintzberg

168. “2. Planning is important, but the most important part of every plan is to plan on the plan not going according to plan. What’s the saying? You plan, God laughs. Financial and investment planning are critical, because they let you know whether your current actions are within the realm of reasonable. But few plans of any kind survive their first encounter with the real world. If you’re projecting your income, savings rate, and market returns over the next 20 years, think about all the big stuff that’s happened in the last 20 years that no one could have foreseen: September 11th, a housing boom and bust that caused nearly 10 million Americans to lose their homes, a financial crisis that caused almost nine million to lose their jobs, a record-breaking stock-market rally that ensued, and a coronavirus that shakes the world as I write this. A plan is only useful if it can survive reality. And a future filled with unknowns is everyone’s reality. A good plan doesn’t pretend this weren’t true; it embraces it and emphasizes room for error. The more you need specific elements of a plan to be true, the more fragile your financial life becomes. If there’s enough room for error in your savings rate that you can say, “It’d be great if the market returns 8% a year over the next 30 years, but if it only does 4% a year I’ll still be OK,” the more valuable your plan becomes. Many bets fail not because they were wrong, but because they were mostly right in a situation that required things to be exactly right. Room for error—often called margin of safety—is one of the most underappreciated forces in finance. It comes in many forms: A frugal budget, flexible thinking, and a loose timeline—anything that lets you live happily with a range of outcomes. It’s different from being conservative. Conservative is avoiding a certain level of risk. Margin of safety is raising the odds of success at a given level of risk by increasing your chances of survival. Its magic is that the higher your margin of safety, the smaller your edge needs to be to have a favorable outcome.”

169. ​Let what you know—your known knowns—guide you but not blind you. Every case is new, so remain flexible and adaptable. Remember the Griffin bank crisis: no hostage-taker had killed a hostage on deadline, until he did.. ​Black Swans are leverage multipliers. Remember the three types of leverage: positive (the ability to give someone what they want); negative (the ability to hurt someone); and normative (using your counterpart’s norms to bring them around).. ​Work to understand the other side’s “religion.” Digging into worldviews inherently implies moving beyond the negotiating table and into the life, emotional and otherwise, of your counterpart. That’s where Black Swans live.. ​Review everything you hear from your counterpart. You will not hear everything the first time, so double-check. Compare notes with team members. Use backup listeners whose job is to listen between the lines. They will hear things you miss.. ​Exploit the similarity principle. People are more apt to concede to someone they share a cultural similarity with, so dig for what makes them tick and show that you share common ground.. ​When someone seems irrational or crazy, they most likely aren’t. Faced with this situation, search for constraints, hidden desires, and bad information.. ​Get face time with your counterpart. Ten minutes of face time often reveals more than days of research. Pay special attention to your counterpart’s verbal and nonverbal communication at unguarded moments—at the beginning and the end of the session or when someone says something out of line.”

170. The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat. - Author: Henry Kissinger

171. When I first joined MassMutual more than 30 years ago, I don’t think I fully appreciated what it meant to be purpose-driven, even though we have been since our 31 founders pooled $100,000 to start the company in 1851. Every year in this role, I’m grateful to have such clarity about why we exist – to help people secure their futures and protect the ones they love – but never more so than now. Since the crisis began, we’ve made a number of decisions backed by this purpose – decisions like moving quickly to working from home, using technology to connect customers with their trusted financial professionals, and talking to our managers about leading with empathy as people balance work and personal obligations. There’s no universal playbook for organizations to follow right now – we each have parts to play, and if you know your purpose, it’s much easier to determine what you are best positioned to contribute in difficult times.” ~ Roger Crandall, Chairman, President & CEO, MassMutual

172. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”

173. “I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.”

174. “If you don’t choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.”

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

176. “It’s impossible for anyone keeping up with current events to believe that the future will be completely free of problems.”

177. “A crisis is an opportunity riding a dangerous wind.”

178. “People may call what happens at midlife “a crisis. ” but it’s not. It’s an unraveling—a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live. not the one you’re “supposed” to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.”

179. “Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".”

180. “And We will try you with something of fear and hunger, and loss of wealth and lives, and fruits; but give glad tidings to the patient. Who, when a misfortune overtakes them, say, ‘Surely, to God we belong and to Him shall we return.” – Qur’an (2:156-158)

181. “Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.” Jawaharlal Nehru

182. “I understand that it’s hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions… we’ll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we’ll have to work on overcoming it.” Boris Yeltsin

183. “Let us not only clean our hands, we must purify our hearts.”

184. Millions of people are counting on us for science-based information and answers, research that gets to the core of big unanswered questions, resources for the frontlines, community programs and patient support. While there’s no denying the complexity of managing through crisis, leaders can find clarity by testing every decision against touchstones that define their culture. I’m incredibly humbled to witness the collective influence of 40 million AHA volunteers, supporters, staff and communities come together with resilience and focus to hero our mission as a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.” ~ Nancy Brown, CEO, American Heart Association

185. “Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.” Jeannette Walls

186. “In a crisis, don’t hide behind anything or anybody. They’re going to find you anyway.”

187. “We have a retirement crisis in America today not from a lack of money, but from a lack of vision.” ~ Dave Ramsey

188. far past the time when everything might have turned out well. We are now in crisis management, hoping that things will turn out badly instead of much, much worse." That - Author: Kevin Hearne

189. -You have to lead your organization out of a crisis. No organization was handled in a crisis, it was led. Be the leader that leads everyone out of trouble.

190. Why are kids being inundated with food that is not good for them, when we're suffering from an obesity crisis? Is the U.S. government talking out of both sides of its mouth, promoting bad food while telling us not to eat it? - Author: Jane Velez-Mitchell

191. There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it. - Author: Mo Ibrahim

192. “Power isn’t control at all. Power is strength and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger. A leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”

193. “In a time of crisis, we all have the potential to morph up to a new level and do things we never thought possible.” – Stuart Wilde

194. “The key to overcome crisis is patience, courage, self-discipline, adaptation and alertness.”

195. “Hard times should pull us together

196. “Who do you want to be when there’s a crisis? Do you want to be the person that everyone can turn to for strength? Why the hell not? Why not that as a goal? That’d be good goal. Because then when there’s a crisis, it won’t be such a bloody crisis because there’s someone there that can deal with it.”

197. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

198. “[Joab} does something he wouldn't have done if this woman were approaching him full of chaos. (44) 2 Samuel 20 This woman had established a pattern of making wise choices in her life, and a pattern of wise choices in the ordinary paves the road to a demonstration of wisdom in the extraordinary... Her wisdom preceded her. When it mattered most - in this time of crisis - she didn't have to try to convince people her advice was wise. They knew it. They trusted her...knowledge...insight...discernment. (45)”

199. “Crisis does not create character it reveals it.”

200. ”Don’t push people to where you want to be; meet them where they are.” — Meghan Keaney Anderson, VP Marketing, HubSpot

201. “Crisis es una palabra rara: se queda igual en singular y plural. Y así, para Caro, esta era sólo una crisis de su hermana menor mientras, para mí, bajo esa palabrita, se guardaban cientos de malas decisiones.”

202. “When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” – John F Kennedy

203. “Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, outlined when he described what happens to businesses in tumultuous times: “Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.”

204. “However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.”

205. “A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”

206. “Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration–the secret alembics of vitality.” — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

207. “True belonging is not something you negotiate externally, it’s what you carry in your heart. It’s finding the sacredness in being a part of something. When we reach this place, even momentarily, we belong everywhere and nowhere. That seems absurd, but it’s true. Carl Jung argued that a paradox is one of our most valued spiritual possessions and a great witness to the truth. It makes sense to me that we’re called to combat this spiritual crisis of disconnection with one of our most valued spiritual possessions. Bearing witness to the truth is rarely easy, especially when we’re alone in the wilderness.”

208. “Instead of interrupting, work on attracting.” — Dharmesh Shah, CTO & Co-Founder, HubSpot

209. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

210. “There’s always an opportunity with crisis. Just as it forces an individual to look inside himself, it forces a company to reexamine its policies and practices.” Judy Smith

211. “Sullenberger later wrote about [air traffic controller] Harten, "his words let me know that he understood that these hard choices were mine to make, and it wasn't going to help if he tried to dictate a plan to me.”

212. Being a person that others can trust is one of the most sought after qualities in the workplace today. So many leaders and their staff have shown in the recent global financial crisis a lack of trust and integrity amongst themselves and with their clients and other stakeholders. - Author: Nigel Cumberland

213. “The military is one of the top contributing factors to my success. 'Fear of failure' is something that shouldn't be in your vocabulary in the military, or entrepreneurship. You need to take calculated risks and not be afraid of setbacks. And in both cases, you need the mindset that I will do whatever it takes to accomplish the mission.” -- Colin Wayne, founder and CEO of Redline Steel, Army veteran

214. “In an emerging or ongoing crisis, either you’re the virtuous agent of the solution or the destructive part of the problem.”

215. In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics … am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise every day?–Edward Albert

216. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

217. “Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.”

218. “An issue ignored is a crisis invited.”

219. “Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.”

220. “In an organization which manages by drives people either neglect their job to get on with the current drive, or silently organize for collective sabotage of the drive in order to get their work done. In either event they become deaf to the cry of “wolf.” And when the real crisis comes, when all hands should drop everything and pitch in, they treat it as just another case of management-created hysteria. Management by drive is a sure sign of confusion. It is an admission of incompetence. It is a sign that management does not think. But, above all, it is a sign that the company does not know what to expect of its managers and that, not knowing how to direct them, it misdirects them.”

221. “There is no better test of character than when you’re tossed into crisis. That’s when we see one’s true colors shine through. So I try my best to make my characters personally involved in the plot, in a way that stresses them and tests them.” – Tess Gerritsen

222. “The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.” Brian Tracy

223. “Don’t tell people how to do things; tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

224. I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical. - Author: Bill Gates

225. “We hear a great deal of talk about the midlife crisis of the executive. It is mostly boredom. At 45, most executives have reached the peak of their business careers, and they know it. After 20 years of doing very much the same kind of work, they are very good at their jobs. But they are not learning or contributing or deriving challenge and satisfaction from the job. And yet they are still likely to face another 20 if not 25 years of work. That is why managing oneself increasingly leads one to begin a second career.

226. “Go out of your way to find humility when things are

227. Trash reality shows, #cancelbigbrothergr

228. “Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.”

229. The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.

230. “When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?” —Tromso, Norway, 2005

231. “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. [A] crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before.”

232. “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” – Abraham Lincoln

233. “The moment of crisis had come. and I must face it. My old fears. my diffidence. my shyness. my hopeless sense of inferiority. must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.”

234. “As an entrepreneur, I have to put everything at risk every day. It’s remarkably easy to continue doing what you’ve done the day before and the day before that, but I have learned that if you’re not willing to take a risk, then you will stop growing and you will not be successful.” -- Andrew Weins, owner and operator of the Menomonee Falls, Wis., territory of JDog Junk Removal & Hauling, Army veteran

235. “Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.”

236. “Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.” — Susan Taylor

237. We do not see any improvement to our bodies with day-to-day comparisons. I know of no case study in history that describes an organization that has been managed out of a crisis. Every single one of them was led.

238. “We have a retirement crisis in America today nor from a lack of money, but from a lack of vision”

239. “Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it.”

240. “Every little thing counts in a crisis.” Jawaharlal Nehru

241. “However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth-tellers. One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.” ~ Daniel Kahneman

242. Despite every advancement, language remains the defining nexus of our humanity; it is where our knowledge and hope lie. It is the precondition of human tenderness, mightier than the sword but also infinitely more subtle and ultimately more urgent. - Author: Andrew Solomon

243. “Just practice. Persevere. If you approach every day like that, when a crisis comes, you’re prepared for it.” – Vicki Hollub, CEO of Occidental Petroleum 2016-Present

244. We have a retirement crisis in America today not from a lack of money, but from a lack of vision.” — Dave Ramsey

245. When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters: one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

246. “We want you to know that you don’t need to be in crisis or distress to seek help as going to therapy has numerous benefits.” – Carla Avalos LCSW+PMH-C

247. It’s not about branding, but what kind of branding works!

248. “That insight, that God is to be found not in the crisis but in response to the crisis, is the key to understanding one of the most important passages in the entire Bible.” Harold S. Kushner

249. 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. - Author: Narendra Modi

250. “You got to be flexible. When you get told 'no,' you can't get snappy. You keep going back, and you find a way. Sometimes you have to be a little patient and understand how to work with people. Relationship building in this business is key.” -- Pamela Jones, CharBoy’s, Army and Navy veteran

251. “Close scrutiny will show that most ‘crisis situations’ are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.” – Maxwell Maltz

252. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”

253. We call on the international community to share equitably the responsibility for protecting, assisting and hosting refugees in accordance with principles of international solidarity and human rights. - Author: Widad Akreyi

254. “Without continuous hands-on experience, it is impossible for children to acquire a deep intuitive understanding of the natural world that is the foundation of sustainable development. ….A critical aspect of the present-day crisis in education is that children are becoming separated from daily experience of the natural world, especially in larger cities.” ~ Robin C. Moore and Herb H. Wong

255. “It’s the customers that pay us the money, it’s the employees that drive the innovation. I remember the day before the IPO and a lot of people say ‘Jack, I keep the shares. We were long-term shareholders.’ but when the crisis came, these guys they ran away. My people stayed and customers stayed.”

256. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

257. “Every time you meet a crisis and live through it, you make it simpler for the next time.”

258. “the greatest inspiration for institutional change in American law enforcement came on an airport tarmac in Jacksonville, Florida, on October 4, 1971. The United States was experiencing an epidemic of airline hijackings at the time; there were five in one three-day period in 1970. It was in that charged atmosphere that an unhinged man named George Giffe Jr. hijacked a chartered plane out of Nashville, Tennessee, planning to head to the Bahamas. By the time the incident was over, Giffe had murdered two hostages—his estranged wife and the pilot—and killed himself to boot. But this time the blame didn’t fall on the hijacker; instead, it fell squarely on the FBI. Two hostages had managed to convince Giffe to let them go on the tarmac in Jacksonville, where they’d stopped to refuel. But the agents had gotten impatient and shot out the engine. And that had pushed Giffe to the nuclear option. In fact, the blame placed on the FBI was so strong that when the pilot’s wife and Giffe’s daughter filed a wrongful death suit alleging FBI negligence, the courts agreed. In the landmark Downs v. United States decision of 1975, the U.S. Court of Appeals wrote that “there was a better suited alternative to protecting the hostages’ well-being,” and said that the FBI had turned “what had been a successful ‘waiting game,’ during which two persons safely left the plane, into a ‘shooting match’ that left three persons dead.” The court concluded that “a reasonable attempt at negotiations must be made prior to a tactical intervention.” The Downs hijacking case came to epitomize everything not to do in a crisis situation, and inspired the development of today’s theories, training, and techniques for hostage negotiations. Soon after the Giffe tragedy, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) became the first police force in the country to put together a dedicated team of specialists to design a process and handle crisis negotiations. The FBI and others followed. A new era of negotiation had begun. HEART”

259. “Bob Iger, Disney's chief operating officer, had to step in and do damage control. He was as sensible and solid as those around him were volatile. His background was in television; he had been president of the ABC network, which was acquired in 1996 by Disney. His reputation was as an corporate suit, and he excelled at deft management, but he also had a sharp eye for talent, a good-humored ability to understand people, and a quiet flair that he was secure enough to keep muted. Unlike Eisner and Jobs, he had a disciplined calm, which helped him deal with large egos. " Steve did some grandstanding by announcing that he was ending talks with us," Iger later recalled. " We went into crisis mode and I developed some talking points to settle things down.”

260. “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.”

261. “Don’t wait for a crisis to realize what matters most. Put yourself first right now. Because right now is all we have.” —​ Brittany Burgunder

262. “Mucha gente se pregunta: “¿Qué va a hacer nuestro gobierno al respecto?”, pero a mí me parece que esta actitud es parte de la crisis porque casi todo mundo espera que el gobierno resuelva sus problemas.”

263. "Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” – Paulo Coelho

264. “Good reputation is a lifeboat in the flood of life crisis.”

265. Never let a good crisis go to waste.

266. “We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. […] And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself?” – Greta Thunberg, climate change activist

267. “I think that people with autism are born outside the regime of civilization. Sure, this is just my own made-up theory, but I think that, as a result of all the killings in the world and the selfish planet-wrecking that humanity has committed, a deep sense of crisis exists. Autism has somehow arisen out of this. Although people with autism look like other people physically, we are in fact very different in many ways. We are more like travelers from the distant, distant past. And if, by our being here, we could help the people of the world remember what truly matters for the Earth, that would give us a quiet pleasure.”

268. “Seen properly, everything that happens—be it an economic crash or a personal tragedy—is a chance to move forward. Even if it is on a bearing that we did not anticipate.” — Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle is the Way

269. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

270. “I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.” ~ Haim G. Ginott

271. “My training in the military has taught me how to handle extremely stressful situations: be calm, be cool, and be efficient. ... In the moment that something strikes, what matters is all of the tiny little decisions you’ve made up to that point. So if you’re sitting at that computer and you have this overwhelming fear of all these things that are about to wash you away, think about everything you’ve done to prepare for that moment and stay calm. Which leads to the next question: what are you doing to prepare?” -- Tim Kennedy, Green Beret, MMA fighter and host of Discovery's Hard to Kill

272. Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose. -Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit

273. “Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.” – Jim Elliot

274. You might want things to be different. But you can’t change anything. You can’t change anything when you’re in a stressful situation or a crisis. You have to deal with it.

275. “The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don’t see coming.”

276. “Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.” Jodi Picoult

277. “COVID came as a test for AROH and its development process. The lockdown forced a stop on the development work in the field, it also hampered the funding of the organization to an extent,” she said. Many of the unprepared and unequipped staff had to suffer during the digital shift of the work, and several opted out of work because of the unmanageable conditions. “The disease not only took a toll on everyone’s health, subsequent economic crisis and psychological stress were also evidently impacting,” she added.

278. “The secret of crisis management is not good vs. bad, it’s preventing the bad from getting worse.” – Andy Gilman of Comm Core Consulting Group

279. “Crisis forces commonality of purpose on one another.” Michelle Dean

280. “Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of other men — above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy.” — Albert Einstein

281. “In crisis times, it’s actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny.” Reid Hoffman

282. “Alertness, equanimity, decisiveness, and compassion are the four core leadership qualities in crisis that come when the 114 chakras are in balance.”

283. “As to the idea of considering myself a “breast cancer survivor,” I have a hard time with that concept. I feel that the term survivor is being overused to the point of losing impact…. I feel that we are all survivors of something every day that we wake up. If it isn’t breast cancer, it’s accidents, old age, poverty, joblessness, or any other condition of the human race. I don’t want to be singled out or made an example of or commended because of my behavior during a crisis or a lifetime. The behaviors that make breast cancer survivors are the same behaviors that make survivors in any situation.” – Jean Maynard

284. “Our techniques were the products of experiential learning; they were developed by agents in the field, negotiating through crisis and sharing stories of what succeeded and what failed. It was an iterative process, not an intellectual one, as we refined the tools we used day after day.”

285. “When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

286. "When written in Chinese the word crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” — John F. Kennedy

287. There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management. - Author: Bill Keller

288. 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. - Author: Michael Foley

289. “Economies and societies invariably remake themselves in the wake of a crisis. It’s a necessary component of rebound and recovery. Outmoded industries and tired consumption habits make way for new goods and services, new careers and forms of employment, and population realigns itself in the landscape. All these developments are connected to lifestyle changes.” ~ Richard Florida

290. “The best, most solid way out of a crisis in a changing market is through experiment and adaptation.”

291. “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.” ~ John F. Kennedy

292. “When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.” Magic Johnson

293. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

294. “A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

295. “What stops people from thinking ahead and getting ready for the possibility of crisis? The majority of people surely understand the importance of preparation…”

296. “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.” ~ Brooke Westcott

297. “I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to expand out of it. However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.”

298. “You can’t relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.” ~ Timothy Dalton

299. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in the moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

300. “Against almost every instinct, I listened. I passed. The intervening years are a blur of events—some good and some pretty bad. I would rise pretty rapidly in business. Around that time, I became the Director of Marketing at American Apparel. The chaos and the conflict in that company—to say nothing of the temptations and responsibilities—would shape me as a person. I learned how to manage people, I learned how to maneuver and accomplish things. Mostly, I learned how to survive—crisis after crisis after crisis. The stuff that Ben Horowitz calls the hard things…”

301. As you work through the immediate issues of this crisis, think if you were to look back two weeks from now on the decisions you made today. Would you regret them or done things differently? That’s how we’re making some of the most important and hardest decisions we will ever face here at Hartford HealthCare. Lastly, take care of yourself so you can take care of others – and be a role model for your team so they, too, will delegate and empower others. Together, we will get through this.” ~ Jeffrey Flaks, President & CEO, Hartford HealthCare

302. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it’s only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Anonymous

303. “If you wait until there's another case study in your industry, you will be too late.” – Seth Godin

304. “In any crisis, clear, consistent, calming, compassionate messaging from local, state/provincial, and national leaders is pivotal to people coming together to overcome adversity.”

305. “The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.”

306. “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to our eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.” Brooke Foss Westcott

307. "The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.”

308. “Like the seaweed that clings to each other after each passing boat separates them, so too a family will come together with the passing of each crisis.”– Indonesian proverb

309. “Sometimes the ethical, the most important ethical question sometimes is the one you ask not at the moment of crisis, but the duty you have to anticipate certain kinds of crises and avoid them.”

310. “Facing the pandemic, is not what happened matters, it is how we respond.”- Napz Cherub Pellazo

311. “Everything in life can be taken away from you and generally will be at some point. Your wealth vanishes, the latest gadgetry suddenly becomes passé, your allies desert you. But if your mind is armed with the art of war, there is no power that can take that away. In the middle of a crisis, your mind will find its way to the right solution. Having superior strategies at your fingertips will give your maneuvers irresistible force. As Sun-tzu says, “Being unconquerable lies with yourself.”

312. “In this jail, I call life, I don’t need bail at this time. You all call it a crisis. I don’t see failure.” – NBA YoungBoy

313. She continued down the stairs. She should have advised Lola to change in order to conceal the scratch on her arm. - Author: Ian McEwan

314. “A crisis highlights all of our fault lines. We can pretend that we have nothing to learn, or we can take this opportunity to own the truth and make a better future for ourselves and others.”

315. “Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me”. —Jim Elliot

316. “1. Watch the news together. Select one crisis and answer the question: If I was in charge of this what would I do? List solution-steps they could take. 2. Groom the optimist in them. Have them read and listen to positive books and tapes. Feed them with big ideas from great people. 3. Have them write out their dreams. Then, have them list their skills and talents. Do any match? Ask them what they would do if they had no fear of failure. 4. Go with them to interview a visionary leader. Ask that leader how they think about problems. How do they perceive opportunities? 5. Discuss current events each week. Ask them to identify one burden or problem”

317. I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel. - Author: Juliet Stevenson

318. “Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.” —Jane Seymour

319. Great expectations are placed on this generation for the establishment of peaceful and neighborly relations in the North Caucasus. - Author: Yunus-bek Yevkurov

320. “Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.” Ryan Reynolds

321. “The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their ‘other selves’. John Bunyan”

322. “Where one person sees a crisis, another can see opportunity. Where one is blinded by success, another sees reality with ruthless objectivity. Where one loses control of emotions, another can remain calm. Desperation, despair, fear, powerlessness—these reactions are functions of our perceptions. You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings.”

323. “Attitude is the difference between an Ordeal and an Adventure.” – Bob Bitchin

324. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

325. “The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.– H.G. Wells

326. Actually, Katniss isn't complaining because she has no intention of staying with the "Star Squad," but she recognizes the necessity of getting to the Capitol before carrying out any plan. - Author: Suzanne Collins

327. “But people in crisis only accounted for about 40 percent of the calls we got. The majority of the calls came from frequent callers. These are highly dysfunctional people, energy vampires whom no one else would listen to anymore.”

328. “Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.” – Sharon E. Rainey

329. “Remember, too, that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they “arrive.” The turning point in the lives of those who succeed, usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their “other selves.”

330. “Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, good companies survive them, great companies are improved by them”

331. “In crisis management, be quick with the facts and slow with the blame.”

332. “Especially when the leaders in your supposed community make it clear that that is exactly how they feel about you when it comes down to the crunch. But no, ignore that. It is in this moment that we must show the true strength of will within us. A few years ago, in the middle of the financial crisis, the artist and musician Henry Rollins managed to express this deeply human obligation better than millennia of religious doctrine ever have:”

333. “I believe God gave us crises for some reason—and it certainly wasn’t for us to say that everything about them is bad. A crisis can be a momentous time for a team to grow—if a leader handles it properly.”

334. “Just remember that crisis leads to opportunity.”

335. “Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your spouse’s primary love language is receiving gifts. Your body becomes the symbol of your love. Remove the symbol, and the sense of love evaporates.” – Gary Chapman

336. “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real fact.” – Abraham Lincoln

337. “If your business doesn't have money set aside in a business savings account, then your business is extremely vulnerable to crisis. Your business has gotta put money aside as a safety precaution.”

338. "Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.”- Jane Seymour

339. “The Downs hijacking case came to epitomize everything not to do in a crisis situation, and inspired the development of today’s theories, training, and techniques for hostage negotiations.”

340. “I have heard of too many people who “knew well before it happened that the 2008 financial crisis was inevitable.” This sentence contains a highly objectionable word, which should be removed from our vocabulary in discussions of major events. The word is, of course, knew. Some people thought well in advance that there would be a crisis, but they did not know it. They now say they knew it because the crisis did in fact happen. This is a misuse of an important concept. In everyday language, we apply the word know only when what was known is true and can be shown to be true. We can know something only if it is both true and knowable. But the people who thought there would be a crisis (and there are fewer of them than now remember thinking it) could not conclusively show it at the time. Many intelligent and well-informed people were keenly interested in the future of the economy and did not believe a catastrophe was imminent; I infer from this fact that the crisis was not knowable. What is perverse about the use of know in this context is not that some individuals get credit for prescience that they do not deserve. It is that the language implies that the world is more knowable than it is. It helps perpetuate a pernicious illusion.”

341. “Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like; it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing.” Bryant McGill

342. “When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” – John F. Kennedy

343. In crises the most daring course is often safest.

344. “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger — but recognize the opportunity.” ― John F. Kennedy

345. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

346. “General Electric was the largest company in the world in 2004, worth a third of a trillion dollars. It had either been first or second each year for the previous decade, capitalism’s shining example of corporate aristocracy. Then everything fell to pieces. The 2008 financial crisis sent GE’s financing division—which supplied more than half the company’s profits—into chaos. It was eventually sold for scrap. Subsequent bets in oil and energy were disasters, resulting in billions in writeoffs. GE stock fell from $40 in 2007 to $7 by 2018. Blame placed on CEO Jeff Immelt—who ran the company since 2001—was immediate and harsh. He was criticized for his leadership, his acquisitions, cutting the dividend, laying off workers and—of course—the plunging stock price. Rightly so: those rewarded with dynastic wealth when times are good hold the burden of responsibility when the tide goes out. He stepped down in 2017. But Immelt said something insightful on his way out. Responding to critics who said his actions were wrong and what he should have done was obvious, Immelt told his successor, “Every job looks easy when you’re not the one doing it.”

347. “Every crisis offers an opportunity to grow stronger and wiser; to reach deep within and discover a better you that will create a better outcome. So while this is your crisis, what matters most is what you do with it.”

348. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

349. “The greatest risk is taking no action. My first commanding officer used to say, 'Always do something. Never do nothing.' Having a bias for action encourages you to take small risks early, which can keep things from escalating into situations of greater risk that are harder to deal with later." -- Jason Hardebeck, founder and CEO of The Foundery, Navy veteran

350. Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007? - Author: Bill Gross

351. “Despite everything that has happened, regardless of the pain of their loss, despite all the other nonviolent peaceful warriors who suffered and sometimes fell, I have never once considered giving up or giving out. I could not let myself get lost in a sea of despair, because I had faith that the truth is bigger than all humanity. The tragedy of their loss was a crisis of faith, but in that struggle, I discovered that you can kill a Medgar Evers or a Jimmie Lee Jackson. You can kill three civil rights workers named Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. You can bomb four innocent little girls in church on a Sunday morning. You can even kill three of the finest leaders of the twentieth century, but you cannot kill the truth they represented. The truth marches on; it is not connected to the life of any one individual. When a person dies, the dream does not die. You can kill a man, but the truth that he stood for will never die.”

352. “It was this intense self-discipline and objectivity that allowed Rockefeller to seize advantage from obstacle after obstacle in his life, during the Civil War, and the panics of 1873, 1907, and 1929. As he once put it: He was inclined to see the opportunity in every disaster. To that we could add: He had the strength to resist temptation or excitement, no matter how seductive, no matter the situation. Within twenty years of that first crisis, Rockefeller would alone control 90 percent of the oil market. His greedy competitors had perished. His nervous colleagues had sold their shares and left the business. His weak-hearted doubters had missed out.”

353. “In a crisis, the inevitable suffering that life entails can rapidly make a mockery of the idea that happiness is the proper pursuit of the individual.”

354. “In this jail I call life I don’t need bail in this time y’all call crisis I don’t see failure.” – NBA YoungBoy

355. “When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn’t work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form — or a species — will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.” Eckhart Tolle

356. “The most fortunate of us all in our journey through life frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which greatly afflict us. To fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.” Thomas Jefferson

357. “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”

358. “Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.”

359. “When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters — one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.” John F. Kennedy

360. “Lady’s, men you too… you are perfect as you exist right now, but… that version of you isn’t sufficient next year. You gotta be crazy hungry and in crisis to get to that next version of you.” – Ed Mylett

361. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.”

362. Well, the quarter life crisis is definitely real now…

363. “A recurrent crisis should always have been foreseen. It can therefore either be prevented or reduced to a routine which clerks can manage. The definition of a “routine” is that it makes unskilled people without judgment capable of doing what it took near-genius to do before; for a routine puts down in systematic, step-by-step form what a very able man learned in surmounting yesterday’s crisis. The recurrent crisis is not confined to the lower levels of an organization. It afflicts everyone.”

364. Address the solvable first, instructs the father by way of teaching his son crisis management. That way, he counsels, there is less distraction to tackle more daunting issues. - Author: Brian Herbert

365. “History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.” Robert Kiyosaki

366. Only XX years 'til you can get that mid-life crisis car!

367. “When it comes to crisis communications, if you always focus on building a relationship with your customers, fans and followers, you will always find yourself communicating in the right direction.” – Melissa Agnes, President and co-founder of Agnes + Day Inc.

368. “Don’t wait for a crisis to realize what matters most. Put yourself first right now. Because right now is all we have.”

369. “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” Dante Alighieri

370. “You need to be prepared for today’s media culture, in which a tweet can become newsworthy and a news interview can become tweet-worthy.” – Brad Phillips of Phillips Media Relations, a.k.a Mr Media Training

371. “One solution is to avoid making any single aspect of your identity an overwhelming portion of who you are. In the words of investor Paul Graham, “keep your identity small.” The more you let a single belief define you, the less capable you are of adapting when life challenges you. If you tie everything up in being the point guard or the partner at the firm or whatever else, then the loss of that facet of your life will wreck you. If you’re a vegan and then develop a health condition that forces you to change your diet, you’ll have an identity crisis on your hands. When you cling too tightly to one identity, you become brittle. Lose that one thing and you lose yourself.”

372. “There are what I might call your Kamikaze-style liars. These’ll tell you a surreal and fundamentally incredible lie, and then pretend a crisis of conscience and retract the original lie, and then offer you the like they really want you to buy instead, so the real lie’ll appear a some kind of concession, a settlement with truth.”

373. Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets ... any sound investment will eventually pay off. — Carlos Slim Helu

374. “An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.” — Kathi Appelt

375. “The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.”

376. Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

377. “Tomorrow’s unknown crisis is not something to avoid in fear. It requires our attention and deliberation. We just need to have the courage to face the truth of our future’s uncertainty. We just need to be prepared.”

378. “The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the importance of shopping and buying local.” – Mike Parson

379. When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face. - Author: Randall Cobb

380. I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness. - Author: John Steinbeck

381. “Denial of unpleasant facts is a cancer to resolving crises. Manifesting has its place, spiritual work has its place... but those things are even more effective when paired with practicality and realism. Acknowledge the unpleasant facts, then utilize whichever resources will eliminate them.”

382. “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” ~ John F. Kennedy

383. “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” Abraham Lincoln

384. “Though the number of children affected by crisis is reaching an all-time high, financing for education in emergencies remains outrageously low.”

385. “We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

386. The alternative to systematic planning is decision-making based on history. This generally results in reactive management leading to crisis management, conflict management, and fire fighting. - Author: Harold R. Kerzner

387. “When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” — John F. Kennedy

388. “Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.” – Paulo Coelho

389. “In every crisis. doubt or confusion. take the higher path – the path of compassion. courage. understanding. and love.” – Amit Ray

390. “The first astronomers, agriculturalists”: Greens demand urgent action on Indigenous IP policy

391. “When we invite The Lord of the Silence into a turbulent situation, God promises to give us peace that “surpasses all comprehension”.”

392. “I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.” – Richard Branson

393. Myths are simply stories about truths we've forgotten. - Author: Rick Riordan

394. “In crisis management, be quick with the facts, slow with the blame.”

395. “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” —Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. president

396. “Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom.”

397. “I know of no case study in history that describes an organization that has been managed out of a crisis. Every single one of them was led.”

398. In such crisis our best friends, soul sister or brother who are appointed by God as guardian angels in our life, take charge to guide us.” – Shashi Dip

399. “Make your customer the hero of your stories.” – Ann Hadley

400. “Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. This principle is also true, ultimately, in human behavior, in human relationships. They, too, are natural systems based on the law of the harvest. In the short run, in an artificial social system such as school, you may be able to get by if you learn how to manipulate the man-made rules, to “play the game.” In most one-shot or short-lived human interactions, you can use the Personality Ethic to get by and to make favorable impressions through charm and skill and pretending to be interested in other people’s hobbies. You can pick up quick, easy techniques that may work in short-term situations. But secondary traits alone have no permanent worth in long-term relationships. Eventually, if there isn’t deep integrity and fundamental character strength, the challenges of life will cause true motives to surface and human relationship failure will replace short-term success. Many people with secondary greatness—that is, social recognition for their talents—lack primary greatness or goodness in their character. Sooner or later, you’ll see this in every long-term relationship they have, whether it is with a business associate, a spouse, a friend, or a teenage child going through an identity crisis. It is character that communicates most eloquently. As Emerson once put it, “What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.” There are, of course, situations where people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well. But the effects are still secondary. In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. We all know it. There are people we trust absolutely because we know their character. Whether they’re eloquent or not, whether they have the human relations techniques or not, we trust them, and we work successfully with them. In the words of William George Jordan, “Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil—the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.”

401. “Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.” Charles de Gaulle

402. “After all, a crisis doesn’t make a person; it reveals what a person is made of.” — Warren W. Wiersbe

403. “Very simply, your organization’s crisis plan is incomplete without a comprehensive digital strategy.” – Jane Jordan-Meier, The Four Stages of Highly Effective Crisis Management: How to Manage the Media in the Digital Age

404. Let this then be one of our rules and principles concerning the gods, to which our poets and reciters will be expected to conform

405. “There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.”

406. My life before him was so simple and decided, now after him...It's just...After. - Author: Anna Todd

407. “In such crisis, our best friends, soul sister or brother who are appointed by God as guardian angels in our life, take charge to guide us.” – Shashi Dip

408. Never let a good crisis go to waste. It's the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential.

409. “Losing your head in a crisis is a good way to become the crisis.” C.J. Redwine

410. Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them. - Author: Marcel Proust

411. “Despite everything that has happened, regardless of the pain of their loss, despite all the other nonviolent peaceful warriors who suffered and sometimes fell, I have never once considered giving up or giving out. I could not let myself get lost in a sea of despair, because I had faith that the truth is bigger than all humanity. The tragedy of their loss was a crisis of faith, but in that struggle I discovered that you can kill a Medgar Evers or a Jimmie Lee Jackson. You can kill three civil rights workers named Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. You can bomb four innocent little girls in church on a Sunday morning. You can even kill three of the finest leaders of the twentieth century, but you cannot kill the truth they represented. The truth marches on; it is not connected to the life of any one individual. When a person dies, the dream does not die. You can kill a man, but the truth that he stood for will never die.”

412. “By keeping enough cash to cover at least one month of your typical spending, you’ve created enough liquidity to weather every crisis situation that has occurred so far in modern history.”

413. “A leader is a dealer in hope.”

414. “When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.”

415. “To be effective in crisis management in the digital age means being able to use social media strategically. There is no crisis management today without a full understanding of how to use new media to listen to conversations around your brand in real-time, and understand what you do and don’t need to respond to.” – Chris Syme, author of Listen, Engage, Respond blogs at www.cksyme.org