Overriding Objective Quotes
- We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less.… — Paul Volcker
- The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to… — Richard Pascale
- My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was… — Daniel Ellsberg
- Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be… — Dale E. Turner