Anthony Wayne Quotes

Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs.

If you contemplate some enterprise against the enemy, the commissary must scrape together all the beer and brandy that can be found so that the army does not lack either …

It is not enough just to get your forces from A to B - you have to keep them fed and watered as they go. The art of movement, therefore, is one of the most complex and vital that any commander must master if he is going to win.

In the past, I had the marketing know how to get people to talk about my products, but I didn't have the infrastructure or logistics to fulfill the demand properly.

It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations.

The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

We're interested in it because it would provide a land bridge up to Uzbekistan, which provides us, among other things, a humanitarian pathway for us to move supplies out of Central Asia and down into Afghanistan.

Moving container from Kigali to Mombasa used to take 22 days, now it takes 6 days.

There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.

Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

You are more dangerous than daybreak.

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights.

No one keeps the container, they always keep the product.

Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.

The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.