Quotes About Procurement

#1. Earl Moncrief, the butler, built his financial, procurement, and secret service organizations with the brute power of cash and a profound understanding of clever, malicious, discontented people who lived behind servile facades.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.

Ma Jun

#3. Businesses, the State, and the third sector should join forces for a fairer society around the theme of diversity and inclusion in the supply chain, diverse suppliers in general, and work and procurement with women in particular.

Ofra Strauss

#4. What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing.

Theresa May

#5. We do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.

Dick Cheney

#6. We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.

Vince Cable

#7. My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.

Ian Watson

#8. Government technology processes are mind-boggling long and complicated. A procurement process alone is typically two years, and that doesn't account for the time required to actually build the product.

Jennifer Pahlka

#9. Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy.

Noam Chomsky

#10. You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.

Kevin McCloud

#11. We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

Charles R. Jackson

#12. California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.

Gary Miller

#13. I said if I ever conducted, I would always give myself the best chance to succeed - though sometimes, despite everything, you still fail.

Pierre Boulez

#14. The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.

James Gray

#15. Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.

Adam Driver

#16. I really believe that with a little bit of information, kids can make a big difference.

Chelsea Clinton

#17. Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

Sparky Anderson