Headquarters Quotes

• As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters.

  Tom Metzger

  Islamic, Target, Institutions

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  Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Thinking, Looks, Want

  "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 60), 2002.

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• The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Victory, Battle

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Two, Water, Auditors

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• Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.

  Charles Evers

  Black, Republican

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• We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.

  John T. Flynn

  Europe, Decision, United States

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• Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Dad, New Orleans, Years

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• Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

  Esther Williams

  Business, Vegas, Use

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• What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this?

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Land, What If, Flags

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• Having a size 9 foot is fantastic because almost all of the shoe companies do their prototyping in size 9, so if you visit a place like Nike headquarters, you can try every sort of wacky, out-there model.

  Tim Ferriss

  Nike, Feet, Shoes

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• My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Mother, Dad, New Orleans

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• The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

  Richard Stengel

  Museums, Numbers, Nonprofits

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• Martha Stewart showed up at Manhattan FBI Headquarters to have her finger prints taken and pose for a mug shot. Then Martha explained how to get ink off your fingers using seltzer water and lemon juice.

  Conan O'Brien

  Taken, Water, Lemon Juice

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• Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with no bearing on conventional explanation. This Headquarters has come to the determination that the mystery airplanes are in fact not earthly and, according to secret intelligence sources, they are in all probability of interplanetary origin.

  George C. Marshall

  Determination, Airplane, Army

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• I have seen many organizations where there is this sense of purpose in the headquarters but it never gets cascaded down to everybody within the organization.

  Colin Powell

  Organization, Purpose

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Mistake, Errors

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• Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers and journalists, people raised eyebrows and called you a conspiracy theorist. Those days are over.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Nsa, Eyebrows

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• God has given us prayer as a wartime walkie-talkie so that we can call headquarters for everything we need as the kingdom of Christ advances in the world. Prayer gives us the significance of front-line forces, and gives God the glory of a limitless Provider. The one who gives the power gets the glory. Thus prayer safeguards the supremacy of God in missions while linking us with endless grace for every need.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Giving, Grace

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.65, Baker Academic

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• Many companies operate from more of a command-and-control environment - they decide what's going to happen at headquarters and have the organization execute. That doesn't work here because it's the community of users who really have control.
  
  So we enable, not direct. We think of our customers as people, not wallets. And that has implications for how we run the company. We partner with our customers and let them take the company where they think it's best utilized.

  Meg Whitman

  Running, Thinking, Command And Control

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• Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush.

  Conan O'Brien

  Book, President, Brushes

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• At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.

  Albert Speer

  Responsibility, Decision, Being Free

  Albert Speer (1997). “Inside the Third Reich”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• Headquarters in the Saddle.

  John Pope

  War, Civil War, Saddles

  John Pope (1998). “The Military Memoirs of General John Pope”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?

  Carl Bernstein

  Morning, Men, June

  Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein (2012). “All the President's Men”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company.

  James Goldsmith

  Bigger, Company

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• In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.

  Alan Blinder

  Cutting, Would Be, Inventory

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