Accidents are no longer accidents at all. They are…

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If…

— Henry Petroski

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

— Dee Hock

“To competently perform rectifying security service, two critical incident response elements are necessary: information and organization.”

— Robert E. Davis

Most of the time, your risk management works. With a systemic event such as the recent shocks following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, obviously…

— Myron Scholes

Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved…

— W. Edwards Deming

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief.…

— Malcolm Turnbull

Changes made by management today make no improvement.

— Peter R. Scholtes

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

— Taiichi Ohno

The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.

— Benjamin Graham

Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose:…

— Dale E. Jones

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

— Luc de Clapiers

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

— Gary Cohn

Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm's exposure to large and unexpected losses. In addition, the firm's risk management capabilities…

— Jerome Powell

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in…

— Niall Ferguson

“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not…

— William Gibson