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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.

I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself.

Crises are harbingers of evolution.

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.