88 Headquarters Quotes

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Famous Headquarters Quotes

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity' — Carl von Clausewitz

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. — Ambrose Bierce

When placed in command, take charge. — Norman Schwarzkopf

It's where we become our best company. — Jay Shetty

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated. — Knute Nelson

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. — Euripides

Diversity in counsel, unity in command. — Cyrus the Great

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. — Bernard Law Montgomery

So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time! — Chesty Puller

the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril. — Sun Tzu

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. — Sun Tzu

Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops. — Friedrich Paulus

And regulation entails organizational effectiveness, a chain of command, and a structure for logistical support. — Sun Tzu

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished. — Janis Karpinski

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. — Barbara Tuchman

Short Headquarters Quotes

  • New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here. — Gerald Stanley Lee
  • The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company. — James Goldsmith
  • Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one. — Charles Evers
  • Headquarters in the Saddle. — John Pope
  • We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow. — Klement Gottwald
  • It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march. — Kurt Vonnegut
  • Do not wait for orders from headquarters. Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the gun. — Pat Buchanan
  • The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be. — Abraham Lincoln

Head Office Quotes

I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars. — Maxine Waters

I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado. — Mary Cheney

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head. — Daryl Gates

I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office. — Sean Elliott

Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy. — Dean Karnazes

Create your own individual style. I'm not interested in the girl who walks into my office in a HEAD-to-TOE LABEL look that's straight off the runway. I'm interested in a Girl who puts herself together in an ORIGINAL INDEPENDENT Way — Anna Wintour

I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it. (“Advance Notice”) — Richard Matheson

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness. — Mark Twain

There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch. — Steve Toltz

I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. It’s on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds — Anderson Cooper

What Is Customer Service Quotes

Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it. — Peter Drucker

...the waiter has to come from a place of concentration, subjugation, and complete, limitless service. Nothing is too much trouble. The customer is always right, even when he is wrong. There is no limit to what you will do to serve while that person is in your bar and in your care. — Stuart Wilde

What the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or a service does for the customer. — Peter Drucker

When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason. — Gerry Harvey

Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process. — Sanjay Kumar

Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. — Peter Drucker

That's a very critical phase in customer service because you can start to really understand what part of customer service has value to customers and what part is bothering customers. — Sanjay Kumar

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. — Noam Chomsky

Let your imagination soar. What you can do for customers is more than you see today. — Ron Kaufman

If it is your assignment to write copy for a product or service that you really don’t have a feel for, then you have a great deal of studying to do to make sure you understand who your customer is and what motivates him or her. — Joseph Sugarman

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More Headquarters Quotes

It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield. — Attila the Hun

It became the middle finger I couldn’t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war. — Robin Olds

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters. — Norman Ralph Augustine

As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters. — Tom Metzger

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good. — Norman Schwarzkopf

A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses. — Carl Icahn

President Eisenhower was fed up with the interservice rivalries. Having commanded the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War II, he held deep convictions regarding the value of unity among the military services. As president, he had been a crusader against the excessive waste of resources that came from service duplication. — Annie Jacobsen

We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground. — Corrie Ten Boom

It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment. But it was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke for itself, which is unusual. — Edward Said

Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity. — Wil Wheaton

At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure. — Albert Speer

The time has come to recognize the United Nations for the anti-American, anti-freedom organization that it has become. The time has come for us to cut off all financial help, withdraw as a member, and ask the United Nations to find headquarters location outside the United States that is — Barry Goldwater

Martha Stewart showed up at Manhattan FBI Headquarters to have her finger prints taken and pose for a mug shot. Then Martha explained how to get ink off your fingers using seltzer water and lemon juice. — Conan O'Brien

Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters. — C. Northcote Parkinson

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters. — Wallace Stegner

If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules. There are people so lacking in roots about what is properand what is improper that they don't know there's anything wrong in breaking into the headquarters of the opposition party. — Helen Gahagan Douglas

June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in? — Carl Bernstein

Just growing up in Columbus, which is such a special place, small town with a Fortune 500 company's headquarters, the extraordinary modern architecture. The experiences that I've had growing up in that very unique hometown has shaped me and always will shape me. — Mike Pence

Palestine is not the ultimate goal of the Jews; the world is. Palestine is just the place for the world state headquarters. — Israel Shamir

Before 2013, if you said the NSA was making records of everybody's phone calls and the [Government Communications Headquarters] was monitoring lawyers and journalists, people raised eyebrows and called you a conspiracy theorist. Those days are over. — Edward Snowden

In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make. — Larry Ellison

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack. — Richard Stengel

We don't have an isolated group [of senior managers] surrounded by servants. Berkshire's headquarters is a tiny little suite. We just came back from Berkshire's board meeting; it had moved up to the board room of the Kiewit company and [it was so large and luxurious that] I felt uncomfortable. — Charlie Munger

We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia. — John T. Flynn

I'd basically described myself: a quiet, studious bookworm who would go to bed at a decent hour. A non-partier who wouldn't bring a parade of boys through our room, or make it the floor headquarters for beer pong. — Tammara Webber

What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this? — Muqtada al Sadr

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone. — Esther Williams

Having a size 9 foot is fantastic because almost all of the shoe companies do their prototyping in size 9, so if you visit a place like Nike headquarters, you can try every sort of wacky, out-there model. — Tim Ferriss

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people. It was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment. — Edward Said

130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working? — Matt Mullenweg

Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters. — T. Boone Pickens

The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side. — Sun Tzu

HOUSE RULES [at the Praetor Lupus Headquarters] No shape-shifting in the hallways. No howling. No silver. Clothing must be worn at all times. ALL TIMES. No fighting. No biting. Mark all your food before you put it in the communal refrigerator. — Cassandra Clare

There is no crisis in this country that requires us to set up a crisis headquarters. Iran is currently in a good situation. — Hamid-Reza Assefi

Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush. — Conan O'Brien

We were just floored by the kindness of the people here. The minister of the Unitarian Church in Honolulu invited my family over to his office the day we arrived and told us to make it our headquarters while we looked for a permanent residence. When we couldn't find a place for about a week, he let us live in the church; that's ironic, isn't it? But it points up the vastly different intellectual atmosphere that prevails here in Hawaii. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Our largest companies should not be able to get away with paying hardly anything at all. It is insulting when they engage in these games like moving their headquarters over to a foreign country, on paper, not in reality, just to take advantage of lower tax breaks. — Hillary Clinton

New parents always sound like hucksters in a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has kids and then gets you to go and have kids gets a check from Huckster Headquarters. — Paul Reiser

My men are being unmercifully shelled. They cannot hold out if an attack is launched. The firing line and my headquarters are being plastered with heavy guns and the town is being swept by shrapnel. I myself am O.K. but the front line is being buried. — Gordon Bennett

In London, my associates and I planned two great expeditions--that to invade the Mediterranean and later that to cross the Channel. London's hospitality to the Americans, her good-humored acceptance of the added inconvenience we brought, her example of fortitude and quiet confidence in the final outcome--all these helped to make the Supreme Headquarters of the two Allied expeditions the smooth-working organizations they became. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen. — Sam Ervin

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