Force Multiplication Quotes

I state my general idea of this war to be that we have the greater numbers, and the enemy has the greater facility of concentrating forces upon points of collision; that we must fail, unless we can find some way of making our advantage an over-match for his; and that this can only be done by menacing him with superior forces at different points, at the same time; so that we can safely attack, one, or both, if he makes no change; and if he weakens one to strengthen the other, forbear to attack the strengthened one, but seize, and hold the weakened one, gaining so much.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power.

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.

You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one Anvile.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

We entered the war with 12 divisions...now we have about 70.

A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.

When I became commander of the Joint Special Operations Task Force, I was leading thousands of individuals, from Special Forces to the broader interagency effort. I quickly realized that while we had the most best and most effective operators and small teams in the world, we were unable to scale.

One thing that sticks in my mind is when I was a kid, and I had just learned to read, I came across one of my older sister's textbooks that explained compound pulley. I thought that was really neat, and I still do.