Guns and Butter – John’s INSEAD Blog

Welcome to your own personal front row seat at what where to be among the most intense 10 months of my life, attending INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau near Paris, France.

This is a collection of rants, brain dumps, ideas, whatnot, an attempt to journal the rollercoaster of my MBA studies.

 

No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection.
No inspection ready unit has ever passed combat.

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No plan ever survives first contact with the enemy.

 

Field experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

 

To steal information from a person is called plagiarism. To steal information from the enemy is called gathering intelligence.

 

Never forget that your weapon is supplied by the cheapest bidder.

 

The tough part about being an officer is that the troops don’t know what they want, but they know for certain what they don’t want.

 

The side with the simplest uniforms wins.

 

No matter which way you have to march, its always uphill.

 

A sucking chest wound is nature’s way of telling you to slow down.

 

The bursting radius of a hand grenade is always one foot greater than your jumping range.

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