Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Wanted: Historical Supply Chain Quotes

Are you looking for a supply chain related quoted with some sort of historical significance? Well, you've come to the right place. A new feature of this blog will search the blogosphere and the hemisphere, for that matter, in an attempt to build a repository of historical supply chain related quotes. Here is the first one:

"The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics." - Napoleon
Courtesy of Andrew Brooks, Editor, TransSec Magazine

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Save ten steps a day for each of twelve thousand employees and you will have saved fifty miles of wasted motion and misspent energy." "We get some of our best results from letting fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
My Life and Work, by Henry Ford

Vaibhav 'Spitzer' Thakur said...

Dear Friend, i am Supply Chain Planning personnel and i follow your blog quite regularly. These quotes intrigued me to a point where i searched into Napoleon's logistics strategy and discussed it with my colleagues. Let the more quotes pour in !!