Operations Quotes - Page 2

• Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Moving, Army

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.213, Adams Media

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• How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Workout, Two

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• Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.

  William Godwin

  Evil, Term, Understood

  "Romantic Rationalist: A William Godwin Reader".

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• I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

  Leland Stanford

  Employers, Labor

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.

  Andrew Taylor

  Want, Aspect, Stability

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• I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

  Taylor Caldwell

  Two, Medicine, Medical

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• The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Real, Self, Language

  Hans-Georg Gadamer (2008). “Philosophical Hermeneutics”, p.65, Univ of California Press

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• You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Type, Wells

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• I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

  Sidney Hook

  Judging, Society, Liberty

  Sidney Hook (1987). “Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century”, Harpercollins

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• Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Running, Government, People

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• Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.3, John Wiley & Sons

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• International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

  Eric Ambler

  Blood, Ink, Use

  Eric Ambler (2001). “A Coffin for Dimitrios”, Vintage

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• What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

  Pete Townshend

  Order, People, Theatre

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• No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

  Walter Lang

  Mistake, Perfect, Spirit

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• As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

  George Whitefield

  Long, Miracle, Tongue

  George Whitefield (1904). “Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...”, p.227, CCEL

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• If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

  Arthur Compton

  Technology, Whole, Ifs

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• I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.

  Lou Gramm

  Brain, Remove, Tumors

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• Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Boss, United States

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

  Penelope Lively

  Memories, Preoccupation, Interest

  "'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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• Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Business, Educational

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• In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded

  Ike Skelton

  Years, Iraq, Three

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• Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.

  Bob Woodward

  Literature, Evidence, Involved

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

  Francine Busby

  Hype, President, Port

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• I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

  Penelope Lively

  Memories, Way, Linear

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• We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.

  Li Peng

  Views, Engagement, Terrorism

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