James G. Stavridis Quotes

• No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

  James G. Stavridis

  Motivation, Smart, Inspiration

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• Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

  James G. Stavridis

  Wall, Motivation, Inspiration

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• What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook.

  James G. Stavridis

  People, India, World

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• Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

  James G. Stavridis

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.

  James G. Stavridis

  Men, Periods, Force

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• In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.

  James G. Stavridis

  People, Allies, Insurgency

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• None of the threats to the global commons will be solved by building walls.

  James G. Stavridis

  Wall, Building Walls, Building

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• Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

  James G. Stavridis

  Empires, Afghanistan, Graveyard

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• Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.

  James G. Stavridis

  Motivation, Military, Inspiration

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• When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.

  James G. Stavridis

  Email, Firsts, Get Up

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• Thinklogical's systems play a key role in the delivery and visualization of mission critical data used every day by military and intelligence communities worldwide.

  James G. Stavridis

  Military, Data, Play

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• I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.

  James G. Stavridis

  Linkedin, Social Network, Learning More

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