Quick Response Quotes

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Speed focuses the mind. It cuts through the fog of drab everyday living and keeps us on our toes. Speed works. Speed saves lives. Speed is good. And we should have more of it, not less.

You've really got to stay ready 24/7. You really can't get ready because there's no telling. They'll call you short notice to fight anyone so you really have to stay ready.

I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.

A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.

I'm able to switch gears at any moment.

After a disaster, processing claims quickly trumps everything.

All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of those times was never weary of inculcating that "delays are dangerous," and that the sluggish man the man "who roasteth not that which he took in hunting" will not prosper on the earth, and indeed will very soon perish out of it. And in consequence an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away.

I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating.

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

No one ever swung too slowly.

The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.

Listen to the customer's complaint and act fast.

Haste is needful in a desperate case.

Act now. Act with speed.

I can be just as effective with a quick retort or a one-liner than with a big paragraph.

The sooner you act, the bigger difference you can make.

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.

Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.

I am good at being shown something and counterpunching.

Quick, someone's coming! Look real!

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.