Bits Quote by Richard F. Syron

“Where is the good of planning upon an "if?" To trust is to get ready, uncle says. Trust is better than foresight.”

— George MacDonald

“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

“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