Operational Success Quotes

I think my biggest achievement was being part of a team of outstanding, entrepreneurial military leaders and civilians who helped change the way in which America fights by transforming a global special operations task force - Task Force 714 - that I commanded.

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

We've had such thorough training, we've had an excellent team on the ground. With the minor glitches that have occurred, we've been able to take care of them. And the teams on the ground are getting tons of incredible data.

Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.

Obviously you cannot tell of operations that go along well. Those that go badly generally speak for themselves.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it.

Violence of action, as we call it in the Spec Ops community, will often change the odds in your favor.

Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

Human interaction in a complex environment is key to our [military] success in the future.

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.

Nighttime frequently increases alertness, and each mission should consider the ramifications of a night assault. Several of the most successful special operations were conducted in daytime and achieved a high degree of surprise.

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.

Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.

You pretty much remove the entire political texture from Blackwater when you come to China. What they look at is our 100 per cent success rate.

A lot of coordinated approaches are required to make a global operation work.

My belief is that the permanent estimate of what a general does in the field is fixed by the "cloud of witnesses" who have been with him in the field; and that, relying on these, he who has been right needs not to fear.