James G. Stavridis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.
-- James G. Stavridis

#Motivation #Smart #Inspiration
Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.
-- James G. Stavridis

#Wall #Bridges #Political
When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.
-- James G. Stavridis

#Email #Firsts #Checks
What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook.
-- James G. Stavridis

#People #India #World
Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.
-- James G. Stavridis

#Smart #Thinking #People
I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.
-- James G. Stavridis

#Linkedin #Social Network #Site
Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.
-- James G. Stavridis

#Men #Force #Periods
Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.
-- James G. Stavridis

#Empires #Afghanistan #Graveyard
In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.
-- James G. Stavridis

#People #Allies #Insurgency
Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.
-- James G. Stavridis

#Motivation #Military #Inspiration
Thinklogical's systems play a key role in the delivery and visualization of mission critical data used every day by military and intelligence communities worldwide.
-- James G. Stavridis

#Military #Keys #Data

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