Best Manpower Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“The only problem that ever really seems to bother empire builders is bureaucracy. Before a new colony on the frontier could be founded, the Senate and Triumvirate would have to pass the plan. Factors influencing the High Lords decision would include, among others, the number of people needed to found the colony and whether this would result in any significant population shift. Another, more critical factor would be whether Tactical Defense could spare the ships or the manpower to patrol the area.”

Source: Space Sucks!

“This Kingdom had a total Manpower of around 100,000 troops. They were divided like so: 40,000 in the army, led by Duke Georg Carmine. 10,000 in the navy, led by Dutchess Excel Walter. 1,000 in the air force, led by Duke Castor Vargas. (However, one wyvern knight was said to be equivalent to 100 soldiers from the army.) ... Now, the remaining troops, numbering a little over forty thousand, belong to the Forbidden Army, but they were two further divided with that.”

Army Logistics Manpower

Book:How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Volume 1

Source: How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Volume 1

“Who needs horsepower when you've got manpower?”

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“It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.”

Men Needs Millions Military Duty Quarters Defence Manpower National Service

Author:Eamon de Valera

“In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.”

War Character Turns Three Materials Balance Relation Quarters Total War Manpower Personal Character

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The building of a just and peaceful world order, the aim of the United Nations, is hampered not by a dearth of ideas, resources, and manpower but by the lack of will on the part of governments to take the required steps.”

World Ideas Government Order Nations United Steps Building Resources Aim Peaceful United Nations World Order Peaceful World Manpower

Author:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

“Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.”

World Fighting Nations Materials Degrees Highest Resources Responsible Efficiency Organize Manpower

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“We can't possibly fight all the terrorists in all the countries where they exist because we don't have the money or manpower to do so.”

Country Fighting Terrorist Manpower

Author:Michael Huffington

“A motivated manpower is the most important thing.”

Inspirational Important Powerful Important Things Motivated Manpower

Author:Dhirubhai Ambani

“Make in India! By this, we mean we want to give low cost manufacturing, ease of business, skilled manpower. India is a land of huge possibilities & scope.”

Want Giving Mean Land Possibility Huge Cost Lows India Innovation Ease Scope Manufacturing Manpower Make In India

Author:Narendra Modi

“The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.”

Important War Shows Conflict Majors Korean Korean War Manpower Horsepower

Author:Aly Khan

“Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.”

Accepting Calm Accustomed Supplies Fatality Manpower

Book:The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

Source: The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

“The Cold War is over. And our focus has got to be on intelligence, increased manpower, fighting internationally targets.”

War Fighting Focus Cold Target Cold War Manpower

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Europe has been in the grip of a very serious economic crisis for few years, so there have been major cuts to anti-terrorist funding, to intelligence funding. So we do not have the manpower to carry on this kind of monitoring.”

Years Kind Has Beens Cutting Economic Serious Majors Europe Crisis Terrorist Funding Monitoring Economic Crisis Manpower

Author:Loretta Napoleoni

“Never discount a country by their size or resources. What may not be useful to yours, could be greatly beneficial to other lands in need. Everything exists with a purpose. True wealth is what cannot be seen. While one country can have a huge powerful military, another land may lack the budget and manpower to compete with it -- but be filled with happy citizens.”

Needs May Country Purpose Wealth Powerful Land Military Huge Citizens Resources Filled Size Budgets Beneficial Discounts True Wealth Manpower

Author:Suzy Kassem

“When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.”

People Needs War Use Difficult Becoming Developing Electric Facility Scarce Transport Shortage Rubber Gasoline Manpower Electric Power

Author:William Lyon Mackenzie King

“The point is that any law that makes criminals out of 15 million Americans is probably not such a good idea. The point was that drug abuse isn't a criminal issue, it's a healthcare issue. And the money and manpower we spend prosecuting a surfer in San Diego might better be used fighting things that genuinely threaten our national health and safety. That was the point.”

Ideas Might Law Used Fighting Millions Issues Drug Abuse Safety Criminals Good Ideas Healthcare Surfer Drug Abuse San Diego Health And Safety Manpower Prosecuting

Author:Josh Charles

“As president, the first thing I will do is secure the border. It will take money, manpower, and technology - but most of all, it will take political will.”

Firsts Political President Technology Secure Borders Political Will Manpower

Author:Carly Fiorina

“It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.”

People Helping Light Energy Car Materials Paper Woods Lifestyle Intense Plastic Steel Behalf Bulbs Light Bulb Manpower

Author:Bill Gates

“The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest scientific manpower in the world then) and yet at the same time struggling with amazing poverty. The linear equation that says that modern science equals progress and the reduction of poverty did not apply to India. It wasn't working.”

World Firsts Poverty Struggle Issues Progress Modern Strange Development Thirds India Splits Compelled Equations Reduction Linear Modern Science Manpower Linear Equations

Author:Vandana Shiva

“I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship. To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.”

“If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.”

“Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the future of our nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness - for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy - for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government - for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”

Computer Projects Late Programming Software Software Engineering Computer Programmers Murphys Law Funny Computer Programming Funny Manpower

Author:Fred Brooks

“During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires all year round. I think we have seen the major problem of the destruction of land and property and lives that is a major problem because we don't have the resources for that many fires and we don't have the resources and the manpower to fight those fires throughout the year.”

Thinking Years Problem Fighting Fire Land Office Majors Resources Destruction Seasons Property Rounds Climate Change Elimination Major Problems Manpower

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.”

Spiritual Inspiring United Unity Fighter Nationalism Freedom Fighter Spiritual Power Happy Independence Day India Manpower

Author:Vallabhbhai Patel

“I looked at the toys in my hands and I saw the result of millions of dollars of development and thousands of hours of manpower, put into something bearing the name of a god, my god, and it had nothing to do with me.”

Hands Names Hours Results Millions Saws Development Dollars Toys Manpower

Author:Eric Scott

“Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can be helped and guided and set straight - we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.”

Want Firsts Children Ends Waiting Fronts Crime Serious Late Spending Commit Too Late Doing Nothing Manpower

Book:No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court

Source: No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court

“The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.”

Mystery Cost Safety Aviation Comets Manpower

Author:Winston Churchill

“Those who devise better methods of utilizing manpower, tools, machinery, materials and facilities are making real contributions toward our national security. Today, these ideas are a form of insurance for our national security; tomorrow, this same progressive thinking is insurance for our individual security-it is, in effect, job insurance.”

“Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders”

America Protect Authority Resources International Borders Manpower National Borders

Author:John Culberson

“Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.”

People Needs Giving School Deals Military Style Judging Logic Victim Train Complexes Ignorant Mediums Equipment Good And Bad Criteria Format Military Industrial Complex Manpower

Author:Frank Zappa

“Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.”

Use Economy Succeed Western Contrast Manpower

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front”

Has Beens Fronts Arms Russia Sufficient Reserves Eastern Supplies Manpower Counter Attack

Author:Hjalmar Schacht

“[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.”

Government Politics Effort Priorities Regimes Castro Top Priorities Manpower

Author:Robert Kennedy

“What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure.”

Knows Way Kind Mean Said Technology Safe Secure Borders Appropriate Regions Interiors Enforcement Infrastructure San Diego Manpower

Author:Janet Napolitano

“We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.”

Ifs Numbers Race Percent Vote Organization Bigger Impact Manpower

Author:James P. Hoffa

“Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay”

Problem Pay Quality Plans Materials Cost Waste Machines Raises Management Manpower Purchasers

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“The lack of manpower and infrastructural capacity in our Intermediate and Long-term Care sectors are problems that have been with us for the past 10 years. The demand for rehabilitation services will only increase with a rapidly ageing population. I hope the Ministry will share its roadmap to meet the rising demand for rehabilitation services.”

Years Long Has Beens Problem Care Past Term Share Demand Capacity Increase Population Long Term Rising Ministry Ageing Rehabilitation Manpower Long Term Care

Author:Low Thia Khiang

“Has the Ministry assessed what manpower savings or cost efficiencies have been derived from such use of new technologies, and how policing capabilities have been enhanced? What new initiatives can we expect, and how will the police guard against their officers being “de-skilled” by over-relying on technology?”

Has Beens Use Technology Cost Police Saving Officers Capability Initiative Ministry Efficiency Savings New Technology Manpower

Author:Sylvia Lim

“That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.”

Support Unions Get Money Manpower

Author:James P. Hoffa