Robert McNamara idézet

Robert Strange McNamara amerikai üzletember, az Amerikai Egyesült Államok 8. védelmi minisztere 1961–1968 között, a vietnámi háború alatt. 1968-as leváltása után a Világbank 5. elnöke 1981-ig. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. június 1916 – 6. július 2009
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Robert McNamara: Idézetek angolul

“It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it, necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.”

Robert S. McNamara

Forrás: Herbert Y. Schandler (1975), US Policy on the Use of Nuclear Weapons, 1945-1975. p. 55

“You can never substitute emotion for reason.”

Robert S. McNamara

Forrás: Henry L. Trewhitt (1971) McNamara, p. 119
Kontextus: You can never substitute emotion for reason. I still would allow a place for intuition in this process, but not emotion. They say I am a power gabber. But knowledge is power, and I am giving them knowledge, so they will have more power. Can't they see that?

“Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused through society.”

Robert S. McNamara

Robert McNamara (1967); quoted in: Bruce Rich (1994) Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development, p. 83

“I would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all.”

Robert S. McNamara

Quoted in: Charles A. Stevenson (2006), SECDEF: The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense http://books.google.com/books?id=2NXbS5AG_8QC&pg=PA28, p. 28