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What does it mean?
Prioritize fuel for tanks over the comfort of soldiers.
In plain terms
Soldiers can suffer but equipment needs fuel.
What can you take from it?
Prioritize essential resources over comfort.

Where it applies

  • project management
  • supply chain
  • startup growth

Putting it to work

  • allocate budget to essentials
  • cut non essentials

Questions to consider

  • What non essentials can you cut to help core goals?

Another view

Ignoring human comfort too long can hurt morale.

More from George S. Patton

  1. Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.

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  2. Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

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  3. Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

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