Quotes About Logistics

The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.

Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym!

Contrary to popular belief at the time, German armies were far from total mechanization. In Sixth Army alone, more than twenty-five thousand horses moved guns and supplies.

California today is responsible for more than 40 percent of the nation's seagoing trade. That's why you can't talk about California without talking about its ports, as we will.

Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

If the government can't track illegals, then let's outsource the job to UPS or FedEx.

UPS stands as an example of a company thats already doing great things.

We got 16,000 wonderful vehicles. We got all the steel that we make our tanks out of. Of course, we couldn't have done without Western aid.

I have a lovely room and bath in the hotel. It's a little inconvenient, they're in two separate buildings!

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows

Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.

Southwest—unlike most other airlines, which fly multiple aircraft models—flies only Boeing 737s. As a result, every Southwest pilot, flight attendant, and ground-crew member can work any flight. Plus, all of Southwest's parts fit all of its planes. All that means lower costs and a business that's easier to run. They made it easy on themselves.

Shipping packages one at a time is not only wasteful and environmentally unsustainable, it isn't cost-effective.

Shipping by water is cheaper than by rail, which is cheaper than by truck.

I observed a man sourcing candle wax from South America and selling it to Japan. I thought: 'That's unbelievable. Talking on the phone in his office, that man made money moving candle wax from one country to another.' It really interested me.

We hope that our associates over time can do more delivery from their way home from stores. We keep trying to figure that out given the realities and the rules associated with that.

Supermarket companies are big logistics companies, and one of the ways we've increased profitability in the past is by re-evaluating how they do logistics.

Bathrooms on the plane are so small. Where are you supposed to change a baby?

To organize an Olympic Games is probably the most complex thing on the planet because it has so many moving parts.

People always say I can be a party planner because I'm really good at having to go and planning things out.

I think it's a travesty that the NBA can't just tell these guys to play basketball two days in a row. It's just a joke to me. We flew commercial, and we were able to play back-to-back.