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> [“Setting oneself on a predetermined course in unknown waters is the perfect way to sail straight into an iceberg.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-mcchrystal/setting-oneself-on-a-predetermined-course-in-unknown-waters-is-the/)

[Stanley McChrystal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-mcchrystal/)

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## More by Stanley McChrystal

> [“Setting oneself on a predetermined course in unknown waters is the perfect way to sail straight into an iceberg.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-mcchrystal/setting-oneself-on-a-predetermined-course-in-unknown-waters-is-the/)

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> [“Our actions, particularly interventions, can upset regions, nations, cultures, economies, and peoples, however virtuous our purpose. We must ensure that the cure we offer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-mcchrystal/our-actions-particularly-interventions-can-upset-regions-nations/)

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> [“From the first, I realized that being organized was the key to real compassion. There was a natural tendency for Annie, me, and other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-mcchrystal/from-the-first-i-realized-that-being-organized-was-the-key-to-real/)

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> [“the recently minted military acronym VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity). They”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-mcchrystal/the-recently-minted-military-acronym-vuca-volatility-uncertainty/)

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> [“As the demands of the positions differed, and as I grew in age and experience, I found that I had changed as a leader.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-mcchrystal/as-the-demands-of-the-positions-differed-and-as-i-grew-in-age-and/)

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> [“These and similar moments from our military’s past were on my mind as the enemy in Iraq appeared ever more sinister. I sought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-mcchrystal/these-and-similar-moments-from-our-military-s-past-were-on-my-mind-as/)

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> [“In no class of warfare,” C. E. Callwell had written a hundred years earlier, about the “small wars” of the nineteenth century, “is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-mcchrystal/in-no-class-of-warfare-c-e-callwell-had-written-a-hundred-years/)

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> [“being effective in today’s world is less a question of optimizing for a known (and relatively stable) set of variables than responsiveness to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-mcchrystal/being-effective-in-today-s-world-is-less-a-question-of-optimizing-for/)

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