Procurement Quotes

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  We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technique, Subsidies, States

  "Chomsky: "The Business Elites ... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Procurement policies of all of the major parastatals, it is a very important element of that processes that will continue.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Important, Elements, Process

  Source: www.gov.za

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• In the 10 or so years since e-sourcing technology first made its way into grocers' procurement departments, the results secured have been remarkable: frequent double-digit savings in both direct and indirect categories, new process efficiencies, higher procurement contract compliance, dramatically lower savings leakage - and the list goes on.

  Steve Whiteman

  Technology, Years, Insightful

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• We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

  Charles R. Jackson

  Technology, Curves, Growth

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• I would use the power of procurement, I would say if you want to do business with the mayor of London, you must pay your staff a London Living Wage.

  Sadiq Khan

  Use, Want, Pay

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• Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Ease, Action

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”

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• Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.

  Stephen Charnock

  Happiness, Death, Christian

  "Christ Our Passover".

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• We do know, with absolute certainty, that Saddam Hussein is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.

  Dick Cheney

  Order, Weapons, Needs

  "Threat by Iraq Grows, U.S. Says" by Robin Wright, articles.latimes.com. September 09, 2002.

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• Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

  Martin Heidegger

  Education, Teacher, Real

  Martin Heidegger (1968). “What is called thinking?”

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• What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing.

  Theresa May

  Thinking, Issues, Police

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Сertainly to the extent that we talk about not just procurement in the sense of acquiring goods from the rest of the economy, even to the extent that it is possible to bring Black players in areas where we say we need to raise the capacity of these organisations to deliver services, it is a very important part.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Player, Black, Important

  Source: www.gov.za

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• In government procurement, for example, the opportunity German firms have in the United States is 10 times larger than in Canada.

  Michael Froman

  Opportunity, Government, United States

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much as the business of taxation. The man who understands those principles best will be least likely to resort to oppressive expedients, or sacrifice any particular class of citizens to the procurement of revenue. It might be demonstrated that the most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Sacrifice, Men, Thorough Knowledge

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government”, p.184, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Hillary Clinton really transformed herself into a national security expert. She decided to join the Senate Armed Services Committee, and she became a real military wonk. She was famous for going to every subcommittee hearing and methodically questioning every lieutenant colonel from the Pentagon about defense procurement or selective service benefits. So that's where she really began to carve out and hone this reputation as a hawk that I think has followed her through the secretary of state years and then into the presidential campaign.

  Michael Tomasky

  Real, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Of course, the UK is a significant economy that makes up a quarter of American exports to the EU, more than 50 percent of our exports in certain sectors and over 25 percent of the government procurement opportunities we have in Europe. Brexit reduces the size of the TTIP deal for the United States, and there will need to be an adjustment of expectations accordingly, but Brexit underscores the value of reaching an agreement at this critical moment in the evolution of Europe.

  Michael Froman

  Opportunity, Government, Agreement

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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