Site Selection Quotes

Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed on the site proposed and examined their livers. If the livers of the first victims were dark-coloured or abnormal, they sacrificed others, to see whether the fault was due to disease or their food. They never began to build defensive works in a place until after they had made many such trials and satisfied themselves that good water and food had made the liver sound and firm, healthfulness being their chief object.

The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be decided on; for sacred edifices, for the forum, and for other public buildings.

Something that has been every important to me in all my projects has been location, the place where they are installed.

McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.

There has been loss of steel manufacturing. Those people need jobs. Where you have to build the third airport is where people are. So you're right; if his site isn't playable, then our site is right next to it.

Basilicas should be constructed on a site adjoining the forum and in the warmest possible quarter, so that in winter business men may gather in them without being troubled by the weather.

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.

Understanding place is critical to achieving corporate growth.

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.

I love to scout locations.

Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it's probably higher than that.

He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends.

Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.

Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots.

Some people would ask: 'You are not the one who does the painting, or shot the work, how can it be your work?' But I was the one who chose which site we should use, and which assistant helps me to do the painting, or the shot.

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

Our ancestor when choosing a site to build a fort of a town would always sacrifice a number of cattle to have them doing the water and eat the grass. Then they would kill them and examine their livers. If these were dark or abnormal, they would sacrifice others to be sure that the first were not just diseased. They never built until the made many such trials to be sure that the water and food was heathy for the animals. For if the continued to obtain abnormal livers, they reasoned that this place would be just as unhealthy for man and moved to another site.

We have 35 different criteria when deciding on the location of a data centre. Tax is one of them.

It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick.

The site for the school house is generally the most neglected, because [it is] the cheapest, spot in town ...

We only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed. So we have to be really selective about where we dig.