#generals

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals. ↗

— David Ogilvy

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Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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The Bear had once confided to me that Durrell's ego could fit snugly in the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome but in very few other public places. This runaway megalomania marked him as a blood member of the fraternity of generals. If looks alone could make generals, Durrell would have been a cinch. He was built lean and slim and dark, like a Doberman. A man of breeding and refrigerated intelligence, he ordered his life like a table of logarithms. ↗

— Pat Conroy

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Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. ↗

— John Bolton

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