Peacetime Quotations

When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.

I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy. It was very exciting. It's interesting living life as a civilian, then on Friday night you're parachuting into a foreign country.

This is possibly the largest incident of its kind in peacetime Europe.

I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.

We cannot say it is wartime for the rest of America, but still peacetime for the rich,