Operations Quotations

Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value.

Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

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

On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.

In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between being in harm's way and reacting to enemy contact, and being in a direct combat operations role day in and day out. They are different scenarios that require different standards.

Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee.

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

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

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung.

Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.

I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.

The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.

The hundreds of thousands of men and women at Toyota operations worldwide - including the 172,000 team members and dealers in North America - are among the best in the auto industry.

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

I have quite a bit of experience reporting on corporate behavior, both doing it with independent operations in early in my career, in the underground press, to magazines like 'Rolling Stone,' to regional newspapers and television, and television news programs, to papers like the 'New York Times' and public television.

In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language.

It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly.

I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional.

They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.

I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.

It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.

Within minutes of the attack, your Department of Public Safety mobilized its Operations Center, headed by a national expert on weapons of mass destruction.

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

I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.

Some rescue groups are highly organized, experienced, well-funded, nearly professional. Others are small amateur operations run out of garages and back yards. Their members may identify strongly with animals as victims, sometimes because of traumas and disappointments in their own lives. Others simply love animals and want to help them.

Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame are not normal, everyday malware, of course. All three of them were most likely developed by a Western intelligence agency as part of covert operations that weren't meant to be discovered. The fact that the malware evaded detection proves how well the attackers did their job.

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

If their were more Franklin operations it could help the cause much more than right wing activity.

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job.

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

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

Sales teams use social media to generate leads and track clients as they move through the sales funnel. Operations and distribution teams forecast supply chains, while research and development squads brainstorm product ideas.

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

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.

The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable.

Anonymous is like an amoeba: it's got too many different operations run by truly different people which might not share a single person with another operation, but they use the same branding - they are part of the Anonymous brand, just like al-Qaida.

On the ground, our operations are in India. We believe we are in a country where the growth is still to be captured, so we will remain reasonably focused in this country.

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

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.

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

My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.

You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor.

Moody's Investors Service recently upgraded the underlying rating from A3 to A2 on the District's outstanding debt - without the PSF guarantee. Factors contributing to the upgrade included healthy tax base growth, well-managed finances despite operating at the maximum allowed tax rate for maintenance and operations for several years, and manageable debt ratios.

Nissan is a company that manages its operations with flexibility and in response to customer demand. As we begin launching the wave of 2007 models this summer, we're confident that normal production schedules will resume.

Nick's track record and experience -- television, digital, international -- make him the right leader to fully integrate AP's technical operations globally and for all media, including video.

Nick's track record and experience - television, digital, international - make him the right leader to fully integrate AP's technical operations globally and for all media, including video.

When the idea of an emergency operations center came up, we decided to ask the state if we could keep that building. They didn't have any particular plan for it, and it works perfectly for our need.

Of all the factors leading to the favorable results, our decision to dramatically boost automation in our broker-dealer operations mid-2005 had the greatest impact on profitability.

Of course, the implication is that there is something amiss, but I think that issue is far from settled. In fact, I believe that this government effort is a fishing expedition that unnecessarily disrupts the normal business operations of resellers and the manufacturers that supply them. If the government thought something was really wrong, they wouldn't have cast such a wide net to go hunting. I think this is a classic example of prosecutorial overreach.

Only 15 per cent of the operations we did were amputations. Normally that would have been much higher.

one hopes each time you get a success like that, not only to have gotten rid of somebody dangerous, but to have imposed changes in their tactics and operations and procedures.

My goal is to help the organization focus internally on integrating its operations and focusing its resources on producing consistent, high quality operating performance.

More voices are being heard questioning the tactics, the military operations that are going on, the bombing, and also behind that, wondering whether the issue is far more complicated than this military campaign makes it appear.

Mopping-up operations are ongoing. Individual conspirators will be prosecuted and brought to justice.

No, I am not burned out, ... I have tremendous passion for the game. I have tremendous dedication to the game. I believe that I will find myself in a position of leadership with an organization again in the future, but I have no immediate plans. My goal for the rest of this week is to help the organization with the transition and to help the baseball operations staff that I care so much about get ready for the general managers meetings.

now strikes a much fairer balance by protecting critical rights for our country's citizens and advancing intelligence operations to meet our security needs.

Obviously, our proceedings and operations have been impeded, and if this continues we will have to take some very hard and critical decisions as to the usefulness of staying there if we cannot operate,

NATO is planning to increase its operations further, and will work closely with the Pakistan government and the United Nations in this regard.

New Orleans was absolutely decimated, ... Of their maintenance and operations staff of more than 120, only 15 were able to come in. They needed help with everything.

Right now, it will stay pretty much the same. We are currently undergoing the due diligence process to complete the sales transaction, but we took over operations in February.

If we had a work stoppage that had a substantial effect on our operations for 48 hours, they have the right to call the loans, and I think they would call them.

If we find a migratory bird that's positive, what we would do is ... look for commercial operations, backyard operations that are in the vicinity of that find, and then we would do testing.

Many of the satellite operations that go on there make Aurora a prime spot for aerospace operations.

Leaving Boston was not easy. It was a high level of passion to win, a unique rivalry, a baseball operations staff which was a great, great place to work. That's what I need to learn here and need to recreate here.

When you can streamline operations and lower the cost to the taxpayer through technology, you're going a long way toward open government.

We're continuing to examine our operations and reducing our expenses to remain competitive.

Losing the person who is the head of their operations just diminishes credibility for their search and puts a larger question mark behind what they are doing. Overall, the move is not a good sign for their search prospects.

Losses due to this virus will continue until effective actions are taken within cattle operations to prevent further transmission.

Leo brings a very broad and deep level of experience to Kelley Blue Book that stretches across the automotive industry -- from optimizing dealership operations to maximizing the opportunities of the Internet and e-commerce. He's coming on board to lead an aggressive growth strategy across multiple business units.

Lewis is an operations guy. His real strength: developing stores that appeal to those who aren't the richest people on earth. For Sears Holdings, he needs to find a space between Wal-Mart and Target. I believe he can do it.

Mr. Ecke's going to move his flower operations out of Encinitas to Central America whether or not we vote for this, ... He's been doing that for years, and most of his operations are there now.

Milosevic could have been cured with the help of a surgical operation. Such operations are performed in many countries now.

Miles of roads are also being enhanced to support the operations of the new space launch facility.

Milicic created a brief fi restorm midway through last season when he griped publicly about his endof-the-bench status. A meeting among Milicic, Brown and president of basketball operations Joe Dumars eased those tensions, but Billups revealed that Milicic remained sullen and frustrated by Brown's constant rebukes.

Since Mike came on board we have seen measurable results in the growth of our resort rental program, Suite Getaways (SM) . As we continue to expand our resort management relationships Mike is key to ensuring smooth transitions and to imparting the finest of hospitality services to resort guests. His diverse experience in the hospitality industry makes it possible for him to get to the bottom of challenges and opportunities with little difficulty. His eye for detail, strong operations knowledge and motivation allows him to focus on result-oriented leadership.

Sir, our Iraqi partners have been conducting battalion and Brigade-size operations since April. They have been planning and coordinating with other Iraqi security forces, such as the Iraqi police and local government agencies, preparing for this referendum. Sir, we as coalition forces, we have taken a supporting role only as they prepare to execute this referendum.

Since then I was convinced that the VHA operations could not achieve a sufficient critical mass now, or in the medium term, to meet my professional goals as an agent of change nor my projections of future compensation.

Mining and milling operations have been temporarily suspended as a precautionary measure. The Indonesian authorities are working to resolve the situation in a peaceful and expeditious manner.

Making these operations more efficient is critical to achieve our long-term goal of expanding our proprietary product offerings,

Many companies that purchased Demand Solutions in the last 12 months had a large, ineffective system that was standalone or part of a broader ERP. Those systems either became too costly to support or simply failed to produce a reliable company forecast or demand plan. Demand Solutions is a resource for these companies. Our sales, implementation, training and global support can have operations back on track inside of three months.

So it is a big accomplishment of the Armed Forces and we hope there will be follow-up operations that will bring the same good results.

On a number of occasions, military operations which involved excessive use of force and other violations, haven't necessarily been addressed,

We were certainly poised to take advantage of other teams' inability, if you will, to act quickly in free agency. And now obviously the field's been leveled quite a bit. We're disappointed solely from a football operations standpoint that we weren't able to jump out there and take advantage of some players and opportunities that might have come about because of teams having to clear cap space.

We have simplified our operations and we are harvesting the benefits of completing the integration of all remaining HBC functions,

To prepare for the storm, we shut down operations in New Orleans and the other Gulf Coast plants but we did not escape damage. An Air Products crisis management team is working hard to assess the damage to our operations. Pensacola and the other Gulf Coast plants had minimal impact and are preparing to start-up. The New Orleans site was heaviest hit by the storm. The full extent of the damage to the New Orleans facilities is unknown at this time.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport continually strives to offer state-of-the art facilities that maximize our customer convenience as well as the efficiency of our operations personnel, and ensuring comprehensive wireless coverage is certainly part of that effort. LGC Wireless had a system with the flexibility, scalability, and performance to support all of our wireless traffic today, and to allow for cost-effective integration of new services and applications in the future.

Halting operations at the U.S. processing plants takes away U.S. jobs, reduces U.S. exports, and most importantly eliminates a valuable end-of-life option for horse owners.

I would think you'd be able to run an auto company's North American division out of there, ... Considering they already have the manufacturing operations there, that would make sense.

Kiss is getting its flour supplies from NFM today and our operations will continue as normal. I've been told that NFM workers have gone back to work and negotiations are to continue.