Purportedly said in reference to the Yalta Conference,(January 2023), this statement has rather been attributed to Rahm Emmanuel, Chief of Staff under U.S. President Barack Obama (perhaps deriving from the fifth chapter on "Communication", from Saul Alinsky's 1971 book, Rules for Radicals, which asserts "a threat or a crisis becomes... a precondition to communication" [in] "the arena of action", p. 89; ), and is clearly evident in the language of M. F. Weiner in a 1976 article entitled “Don’t Waste a Crisis—Your Patient’s or Your Own.” (Medical Economics [full citation needed]). See the Freakonomics.com article, Dubner, Stephen J. (August 13, 2009), (format: and comments therein), Quotes Uncovered: Who Said No Crisis Should Go to Waste?, at: 4 January 2023
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Never let a good crisis go to waste.
— Winston Churchill
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Never let a good crisis go to waste." in the context of "Purportedly said in reference to the Yalta Conference,(January 2023), this statement has rather been attributed to Rahm Emmanuel, Chief of Staff under U.S. President Barack Obama (perhaps deriving from the fifth chapter on "Communication", from Saul Alinsky's 1971 book, Rules for Radicals, which asserts "a threat or a crisis becomes... a precondition to communication" [in] "the arena of action", p. 89; ), and is clearly evident in the language of M. F. Weiner in a 1976 article entitled “Don’t Waste a Crisis—Your Patient’s or Your Own.” (Medical Economics [full citation needed]). See the Freakonomics.com article, Dubner, Stephen J. (August 13, 2009), (format: and comments therein), Quotes Uncovered: Who Said No Crisis Should Go to Waste?, at: 4 January 2023" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillKGOMCHTDFRSPC (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, though he was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.
About Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillKGOMCHTDFRSPC (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, though he was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.
