Quotes

Churchill, Winston

In relation to breaking the deadlock in the first World War "'Are there not other alternatives than sending our armies to chew barbed wire in Flanders"

Deng,

It does not matter if the cat is white or black so long as it catches a mouse

Thor, Carl

Approximately right is better than exactly wrong

Harrington, James

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can't measure something, you can't understand it. If you can't understand it, you can't control it. If you can't control it, you can't improve it.

Kennedy, JFK

Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan

Machievelli

Innovator makes enemies of those who prospered under old order and only lukewarm support from those who prosper