Jacob Aagaard
Jacob Aagaard

Whenever we see an unprotected piece we must keep our eyes peeled because this is one of the most important ingredients of a combination.

Dean Acheson
Dean Acheson

There is perhaps nothing more important in the world today than the steadiness and consistency of the foreign policy of this Republic. Too much depends on the United States for us to indulge in the luxury of either undue pessimism or premature optimism.

Dean Acheson
Dean Acheson

How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.

Russell Ackoff
Russell Ackoff

The less important an issue is, the more time managers spend discussing it.

Russell Ackoff
Russell Ackoff

Most managers have some conception of at least some of the types of decisions they must make. Their conceptions, however, are likely to be deficient in a very critical way, a way that follows from an important principle of scientific economy: The less we understand a phenomenon, the more variables we require to explain it.

Russell Ackoff
Russell Ackoff

I do not deny that most managers lack a good deal of information that they should have, but I do deny that this is the most important informational deficiency from which they suffer. It seems to me that they suffer more from an overabundance of irrelevant information.

Russell Ackoff
Russell Ackoff

Over time, every way of thinking generates important problems that it cannot solve.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1. Baron Acton
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1. Baron Acton

Although, therefore, the theory of nationality is more absurd and more criminal than the theory of socialism, it has an important mission in the world, and marks the final conflict, and therefore the end, of two forces which are the worst enemies of civil freedom, — the absolute monarchy and the revolution.

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

John Adams
John Adams

By what means this great and important alteration in the religious, moral, political, and social character of the people of thirteen colonies, all distinct, unconnected, and independent of each other, was begun, pursued, and accomplished, it is surely interesting to humanity to investigate, and perpetuate to posterity.