Frasi di Robert McNamara

Robert Strange McNamara è stato un economista e politico statunitense.

Nel 1955, direttore generale, nel 1957, Vicepresidente, infine nel 1960, presidente della Ford Motor Company.

Occupò la carica di Segretario della Difesa degli Stati Uniti dal 1961 al 1968 durante il periodo della Guerra del Vietnam sotto i presidenti John Kennedy e Lyndon B. Johnson.

✵ 9. Giugno 1916 – 6. Luglio 2009
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“It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it, necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.”

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

“You can never substitute emotion for reason.”

Origine: Henry L. Trewhitt (1971) McNamara, p. 119
Contesto: 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 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.”

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

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