Russel Honore Quotes

• Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives.

  Russel Honore

  Goal, Vision, Management

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

  Russel Honore

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• 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

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• 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.

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  People, Hot, Cold

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• You were born free by accident. You live free by choice. To die free is your responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Choices, Live Free

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• 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.

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  Country, Waiting, Political

  "A general talks storm lessons since Katrina". Interview with Ashley Fantz, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2011.

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

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  Team, Mean, Metrics

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• People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.

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  Mother, Men, People

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• I cant swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

  Russel Honore

  Cat, Swings, Hitting

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• You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

  Russel Honore

  Cities, New Orleans, Water

  "State of Emergency; Interview With Lieutenant General Russel Honore; President Bush To Nominate Roberts for Chief Justice of Supreme Court". "American Morning", www.cnn.com. September 5, 2005.

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• Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed

  Russel Honore

  Teamwork, Team Building, Culture

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

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  Stay Positive, Survival, Alive

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• 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, Safe And Sound, People

  "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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

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  Home, Years, America

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• America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

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  America, Storm, Needs

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• 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, Depends

  "Honore: Sandbags won't save your life", www.cnn.com. March 27, 2009.

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

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  New York, Cities, Two

  "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Military, Fire, Years

  "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• I think American industry has lost perspective about their products.

  Russel Honore

  Thinking, Perspective, Lost

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• If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

  Russel Honore

  Leader, Missions, Ifs

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

  Russel Honore

  Apples, Heartache, Hitting

  "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• 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

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