60 Manpower Quotes

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Famous Manpower Quotes

Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power. — Vallabhbhai Patel

The maximum leverage would mean that you would have people working for you. — Naval Ravikant

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings — Alfred Marshall

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort. - J. Paul Getty

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort. — J. Paul Getty

When two forces unite, their efficiency double. — Isaac Newton

Many hands make light work. — John Heywood

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills. — Stuart Pearce

Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world. — Carly Fiorina

A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product — Richard Branson

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. — Elbert Hubbard

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. — Wernher Von Braun

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. — Sun Tzu

A leveraged worker can out-produce a non-leveraged worker by a factor of 1000 or 10,000. — Naval Ravikant

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. — Alan Turing

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction. — Jonathan Haidt

Short Manpower Quotes

  • A motivated manpower is the most important thing. — Dhirubhai Ambani
  • The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower. — Winston Churchill
  • That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower. — James P. Hoffa
  • Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later — Fred Brooks
  • Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. — Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

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More Manpower Quotes

The building of a just and peaceful world order, the aim of the United Nations, is hampered not by a dearth of ideas, resources, and manpower but by the lack of will on the part of governments to take the required steps. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency. — Chiang Kai-shek

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men. — Eamon de Valera

What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure. — Janet Napolitano

Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay — W. Edwards Deming

The lack of manpower and infrastructural capacity in our Intermediate and Long-term Care sectors are problems that have been with us for the past 10 years. The demand for rehabilitation services will only increase with a rapidly ageing population. I hope the Ministry will share its roadmap to meet the rising demand for rehabilitation services. — Low Thia Khiang

Has the Ministry assessed what manpower savings or cost efficiencies have been derived from such use of new technologies, and how policing capabilities have been enhanced? What new initiatives can we expect, and how will the police guard against their officers being “de-skilled” by over-relying on technology? — Sylvia Lim

Whenever there's an act of terror, its guns, its Christians, it's republicans, but the FBI can't say Islamism because it's too politically incorrect. And nobody wants to lose their job, it comes from the top. I think they lack the manpower to do their jobs. It's not about changing the FBI; it's about changing the way they do business. — Greg Gutfeld

We can't possibly fight all the terrorists in all the countries where they exist because we don't have the money or manpower to do so. — Michael Huffington

We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race. — James P. Hoffa

In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders — John Culberson

I looked at the toys in my hands and I saw the result of millions of dollars of development and thousands of hours of manpower, put into something bearing the name of a god, my god, and it had nothing to do with me. — Eric Scott

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense. — Bill Gates

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower. — Aly Khan

[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared. — Sayings

Those who devise better methods of utilizing manpower, tools, machinery, materials and facilities are making real contributions toward our national security. Today, these ideas are a form of insurance for our national security; tomorrow, this same progressive thinking is insurance for our individual security-it is, in effect, job insurance. — Robert R. Shannon

We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN. — Sellapan Ramanathan

Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front. — Hjalmar Schacht

Make in India! By this, we mean we want to give low cost manufacturing, ease of business, skilled manpower. India is a land of huge possibilities & scope. — Narendra Modi

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sakebut for the nations sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not military preparednessfor armed might is worthless if we lack the brain power to build a world of peace; not our productive economyfor we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of governmentfor freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest scientific manpower in the world then) and yet at the same time struggling with amazing poverty. The linear equation that says that modern science equals progress and the reduction of poverty did not apply to India. It wasn't working. — Vandana Shiva

As president, the first thing I will do is secure the border. It will take money, manpower, and technology - but most of all, it will take political will. — Carly Fiorina

The point is that any law that makes criminals out of 15 million Americans is probably not such a good idea. The point was that drug abuse isn't a criminal issue, it's a healthcare issue. And the money and manpower we spend prosecuting a surfer in San Diego might better be used fighting things that genuinely threaten our national health and safety. That was the point. — Josh Charles

Never discount a country by their size or resources. What may not be useful to yours, could be greatly beneficial to other lands in need. Everything exists with a purpose. True wealth is what cannot be seen. While one country can have a huge powerful military, another land may lack the budget and manpower to compete with it -- but be filled with happy citizens. — Suzy Kassem

Europe has been in the grip of a very serious economic crisis for few years, so there have been major cuts to anti-terrorist funding, to intelligence funding. So we do not have the manpower to carry on this kind of monitoring. — Loretta Napoleoni

The Cold War is over. And our focus has got to be on intelligence, increased manpower, fighting internationally targets. — Bernie Sanders

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm. — Barbara Tuchman

Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower. — Frank Zappa

Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can be helped and guided and set straight - we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate. — Edward Humes

During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires all year round. I think we have seen the major problem of the destruction of land and property and lives that is a major problem because we don't have the resources for that many fires and we don't have the resources and the manpower to fight those fires throughout the year. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding. — Ernest K. Gann

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