Russel Honore famous quotes

Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives.
-- Russel Honore

#Goal #Vision #Management

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.
-- Russel Honore

#Teamwork #Trying #Speed

In the military, as in any organization, giving the order might be the easiest part. Execution is the real game.
-- Russel Honore

#Military #Real #Order

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.
-- Russel Honore

#Team #Mean #Metrics

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.
-- Russel Honore

#People #Hot #Cold

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.
-- Russel Honore

#Home #Years #America

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.
-- Russel Honore

#Trying #Property

Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.
-- Russel Honore

#Apples #Heartache #Hitting

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.
-- Russel Honore

#Leader #Missions

I think American industry has lost perspective about their products.
-- Russel Honore

#Thinking #Perspective #Lost

America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.
-- Russel Honore

#America #Storm #Needs

During the aftermath of Katrina, National Guard troops were positioned on every block to establish a sense of safety and source of help for the people in need. They did not leave communities until people were safe and sound.
-- Russel Honore

#Block #People #Safety

The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.
-- Russel Honore

#Military #Years #America

Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.
-- Russel Honore

#New York #Cities #Two

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.
-- Russel Honore

#Cities #New Orleans #Water

People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
-- Russel Honore

#Mother #Men #People

I cant swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.
-- Russel Honore

#Cat #Swings #Hitting

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
-- Russel Honore

#Survival #Alive #Stores

Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed
-- Russel Honore

#Teamwork #Culture #Speed

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.
-- Russel Honore

#Eye #Preparation #Storm

Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.
-- Russel Honore

#Country #Waiting #Political